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Dublin man, and incumbent of St. George's Church, 

 High Street. He was a keen controversialist in 

 matters ecclesiastical as well as scientific. I have a 

 copy of a rather scarce pamphlet which he published in 

 1874, vigorously combating the claim of the then 

 incumbent of St. Anne's, the Rev. Robert Hannay 

 (father of ''George A. Birmingham," the novelist) to 

 the designation of "Vicar of Belfast." In that same 

 year (1874), Tyndall's Address to the British Associa- 

 tion on Darwin's evolution hypothesis, drew from him 

 a caustic reply which he delivered as his Presidential 

 Address in his first year of office He read papers to 

 the Club on such subjects as "Scientific Nomenclature," 

 "Sponges, their structure and growth," and "Life, as 

 treated in the theories of modern biologists." He wrote 

 articles for the old "Ulster Journal of Archaeology," 

 and for "Science Gossip," and even perpetrated poetry. 

 Arthur W. Stelfox, of the National Museum, Dublin, is 

 his grandson. 



Next came William Gray for two years. He was 

 a Cork man, who settled in Belfast in 1862 as represen- 

 tative of the Board of Works in the district. He joined 

 the Club immediately on its formation, and for over 

 fifty years he was one of its most energetic members. 

 He held the office of Secretary, along with W. H. 

 Ferguson, from 1865 to 1869, and with Hugh Robinson 

 from 1870 to 1875 — ten years in all, and he was Presi- 

 dent for a second term of two years, 1889-91. He 

 applied himself principally to the local study of flint 

 implements, producing a booklet on the subject entitled 

 "Irish Worked Flints, Ancient and Modern." Some- 

 times Gray was rather "difficult." When, in 1891, 

 William Swanston proposed that the honorary member- 

 ship of the Club should be conferred on Robert Welch 

 for his very valuable contribution of photographs to 

 the Club's Album of Antiquities, Gray strenuously 

 opposed on the ground that honorary membership was 

 intended for bestowal on very distinguished men or 

 eminent scientists who had given assistance to the 

 Club, and also because he considered that the fact of 

 Welch being a professional photographer seriously 

 detracted from the value of his gift. Gray's ungracious 

 attitude did not meet with any support from the Club, 

 Frank Bigger expressing the general opinion when he 

 remarked that he altogether differed from Gray in the 



