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critical plants, but, on the whole, he did good work as 

 a keen and observant field naturalist. R. L. Praeger 

 came next, and was followed (1916-17) by A. R. 

 Dwerryhouse, Lecturer on Geology at Queen's. His 

 book entitled, "The Earth and its Story," written while 

 he was in Belfast, is an admirable introduction to the 

 study of Geology. Then came A, M'l. Cleland for a 

 couple of years, succeeded by Stephen Allen Bennett, 

 Science blaster at Campbell College (1898-1926), 

 botanist, geologist, and archaeologist, whose recent 

 death (1934) we all deplore. He received the Club Medal 

 in 1931. His successors were Reverend W. R. Megaw, 

 J. A. S. Stendall, James Orr. W. M. Crawford, R. S. 

 Lepper, D, J. Carpenter, Miss W. J. Sayers, Captain 

 Chase, Charles E. Kerr, Professor Charlesworth, Dr. 

 Gregg Wilson, C. R. K odder, Joseph Skillen, and A. H. 

 Davison. 



But there have been noteworthy men and women 

 on our roll of members who never reached the Chair. 

 I may mention a few. 



Joseph Wright, a Cork man and a member of the 

 Society of Friends. When he came to Belfast in 1868, 

 to take up a position in Forster Green's grocery 

 establishment, he was already a member of the 

 Geological Society of London, and he had made a 

 collection of Carboniferous fossils from the neighbour- 

 hood of Cork which is now in the British Museum. 

 On settling in Belfast, he immediately joined the 

 Club and entered on an intensive study of foraminifera, 

 a subject on which he eventually became an authority. 

 He died in 1923. Dr. Praeger, in his recently-pub- 

 lished book— "The Way That I Went"— relates a 

 characteristic anecdote of Mr. Wright: — 



"A more kindly enthusiast than Joseph Wright," he 

 writes, "never lived. I remember one occasion on which his 

 self-restraint and benevolence were put to a severe test. In 

 a dredging sent to him from — I forget where — he discovered 

 a single specimen of remarkable novelty — the type of a new 

 genus of Foraminifera. He mounted it temporarily on a 

 slide — neglecting to put on a protective cover-glass, for he 

 was a careless manipulator — and at a conversazione of the 

 Belfast Naturalists' Field Club held immediately after- 

 wards, he showed it to J. H. Davies and others. Davies was 

 a fellow-Quaker, an ardent bryologist, a man of singular 

 courtesy, a neat and skilful microscopical expert. Seeing 

 that the slide was dusty, and not noticing the absence of the 



