ii6 The t fish Natu7alist, June, 



qualified for membership. There have been 6 deaths and lo resignations, 

 leaving the total membership on 31st March, 19 12, at 393. Of these 

 19 were junior members. At an extraordinary general meeting held on 

 i6th June, 191 1, for the purpose of making alterations in the rules of 

 the Club, the admission of junior members at a reduced subscription and 

 without entrance fee was authorised, and the method of nominating and 

 electing members of Committee was changed. The memorial to our 

 late member, Samuel Alexander Stewart, has been completed and erected 

 in the City Cemetery at a total cost of l^^o 185. 6d. The average 

 attendance at the summer excursions was but 29. This compares 

 unfavourably with that for the two previous years, when the average 

 attendance was 42 and 53. The Committee would welcome any 

 suggestion whereby these field days could be made more popular. At 

 the conversazione opening the winter session 250 members and friends 

 were present. The winter meetings were held in the Museum, College 

 Square North, as heretofore. F. Balfour Browne represented the Club 

 at the British Association Conference of Delegates held at Portsmouth 

 in September, 191 1, and has submitted his report. The Treasurer will 

 lay before you his statement of accounts, which is not so. satisfactory as 

 last year. This is accounted for by the fact that the cost of our Pro- 

 ceedings for the previous year was exceptionally large." 



The Treasurer (W. H. Phillips) submitted the statement of accounts. 



The report of the Botanical Section was read by N. Carrothers, the 

 Geological report by Miss M. K. Andrews, the reports of the Zoological 

 and Junior Sections by J. A. Sidney Stendall, the Librarian's report by 

 S. Wear, and that of the Sub-Committee appointed to adjudicate on 

 collections sent in for the Club prizes was read by Dr. K. R. Dwerryhouse. 

 The reports were adopted. 



The following were elected office-bearers for 1912-13 ; — President — 

 Rev. Canon Lett, M.A., M.R.LA. ; Vice-President — F. Balfour Browne, 

 M.A., F.R.S.E., F.Z.S. ; Librarian — Sylvanus Wear ; Treasurer — 

 W. H, Phillips ; Hon. Secs.— A. W. Stelfox and Margarita D. Mitchell. 

 Committee — Miss S. Blackwood, Dr. A. R. Dwerryhouse, Robert Bell, 

 W. J. Fennell, W. A. Green, H. L. Orr, Robert Patterson, W. J. C. 

 Tomlinson, and Robert J. Welch. 



May 4. — Geological Section. Excursion to Cave Hill and 

 Carr's Glen. — A large party of members met at the Belfast Waterworks, 

 and proceeded to the Cave Hill quarry. The Rhaetic clays and 

 Glauconitic Sands at the entrance were first examined, and characteristic 

 fossils obtained from both. In the quarry, the Chloritic Sands and 

 White Limestone also yielded good results. The basalt was examined 

 for zeolites, and in connection with these Mr. Bell showed a fine specimen 

 of phacolite he had found at Killyflew, near Ballymena, its first record 

 from Co. Antrim. Some interesting basic dykes were noted, also a 

 fault at the western end of the quarry, bringing up the " Chloritic 

 Sands." The walk was continued to Carr's Glen, where an outcrop of 

 Lias yielded fossils, including species and teeth of Diadema lobatum, 

 Wright ; Osirea liassica, Strickel ; Cardinia listen. Sow. ; Modiola 



