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Corresponding* Member of the Club till the day of his 

 death. 



John W. Browne was, I presume, John Walton 

 Browne, who afterwards became a leading- Belfast 

 surgeon, and was knighted in 1921. He was born in 

 1845, so that in 1863 he was probably a student at 

 Queen's. 



The next name is that of a young man of twenty, 

 Thomas Workman, who devoted himself to the study 

 of spiders. He travelled extensively on the continent 

 of Europe, North and South America, and the Far 

 East. His collection of spiders included specimens 

 from all parts of the world, and his name was given 

 to at least two new tropical varieties. Besides a 

 valuable Irish List in the "Entomologist," 1880, he 

 wrote a book in two volumes on "Malaysian Spiders." 

 The first volume was published in 1896, but the second, 

 although completed before his death, remains un- 

 published. He died in 1900. He was a linen merchant 

 and also one of the founders of the firm of Workman, 

 Clark & Co., Ltd., shipbuilders. Major Robert Work- 

 man, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Linen 

 Hall Library, is his son. 



Hugh Robinson, born in 1845, at 26 North Street, 

 was the eldest son of Samuel D. Robinson, a brush 

 manufacturer and proprietor of the Temperance Hotel, 

 82 Donegall Street, which still bears the name of the 

 family. Hugh Robinson was for some years con- 

 nected with the wholesale drapery trade, to which he 

 had served an apprenticeship. He early showed a 

 taste for the study of Natural Science and won several 

 prizes at the classes under the Science and Art 

 Department. Eventually he became Secretary of the 

 Belfast School of Art and, in 1884, Registrar of the 

 Royal Belfast Academical Institution. He took a lead- 

 ing part in the formation of the Club. For eleven 

 years he acted as its Secretary, with William Gray as 

 his colleague for six years and William Swanston for 

 five. From 1887 to 1889 he was President. He died 

 in 1890. 



Samuel Symington, whose name is last on the list, 

 was a yarn buyer for Brookfield Linen Co., Ltd., and 

 lived at Dundonald. 



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