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Medal (1923). Geology was his chief study, and with 

 Charles Lapworth, afterwards Professor of Geology in 

 Mason University College, Birmingham, he carried out 

 a very important piece of work on the fossil remains, 

 mostly graptolites, in the Silurian rocks of County 

 Down. The result of their investigation is embodied 

 m an Appendix to the Club's Proceedings, 1876-7. 



The next President was F, W. Lockwood, an archi- 

 tect and civil engineer. He contributed to the Club's 

 winter meetings papers on "Round Towers," "Sculp- 

 tures on the Church at Maghera," "English Castles 

 of Strangford Lough," and "Crannoges in Lough- 

 mourne." 



In two years he was succeeded by Lavens 

 Matthewson Ewart, a linen manufacturer, second son 

 of Sir William Ewart, Bt, by his wife, Isabel, 

 daughter of Lavens Matthewson, of Newtownstewart. 

 He compiled a useful Diocesan Handbook for Down 

 and Connor and Dromore, and was a frequent contri- 

 butor to the second series of the "Ulster Journal of 

 Archaeology." He was best known as an antiquary and 

 collector, particularly of local maps and books. His 

 collection of Belfast-printed books is housed in the 

 Linen Hall Library. He died in 1898. 



Next came the Reverend Coslett Herbert Waddell, 

 Vicar of Saintfield from 1890 till 1912, and then Rector 

 of Greyabbey till his death in 1919. He specialised in 

 mosses and in critical genera of flowering plants such 

 as brambles, roses, hawkweeds, and knotweeds. For 

 forty years, from his election in 1879, he maintained 

 a warm interest in the Club, serving long on its Com- 

 mittee and occupying the Chair for two years. He 

 was followed by Francis Joseph Bigger, lawyer, 

 antiquary, and historian. I use again some sentences 

 I w r rote of him at the time of his death, 1926 — "For 

 more than thirty years he was a prolific writer on the 

 history, antiquities, and old social customs of his native 

 province. He edited, with conspicuous ability, the 

 'Ulster Journal of Archaeology' (second series, 1894 

 to 1911). . . . When the Trish Naturalists' Journal' was 

 started, he gave it his cordial support, consenting to 

 act as a Sectional Editor for Archaeology and con- 

 tributing several articles. ... He loved all Nature, and 

 was never happier than in the garden at Ardrigh 

 among his feathered friends and his flowers." Bigger 



