24 The Irish Natiiralist. [January, 



Bei^fast Naturai^ists' F1E1.D Club. 

 November 10. Conversazione. —Au interesting conversazione was 

 held in the Free Library, which was kindly granted by the Library 

 Committee of the Corporation for that purpose. This meeting was 

 under the combined auspices of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, the 

 Belfast Art Society, and the Ulster Amateur Photographic Society. The 

 doors were opened to the members at 6.30. Tea was served in the room 

 devoted to the Grainger Collection and in the Lending Library. After- 

 wards the members were directed to the exhibitions, which were well 

 arranged in the Reference Library and Art Galleries. On the tables of 

 the Reference Library were laid out the exhibits of the Field Club. 

 These illustrated the work done or objects collected during the season 

 by the members in the various branches of science and archaeology. In 

 the Microscopic vSection the exhibitors were as follows-. — Miss M. K. 

 Andrews, rock sections and specimens of Mourne Mountain granite; Wm. 

 Gray, botanical preparations, recent and fossil; Wm. Hanna. M.B.,radio- 

 laria and sponges; W. S. M-Kee, freshwater organisms; Joseph Wright, 

 F.G.S., foraminifera ; whilst the various organisms which give rise to ty- 

 phoid and cholera were exhibited by Lorrain Smyth, M.D, ; W. D. Donnan, 

 M.D. ; Cecil Shaw, M.D.; and K.Coey Bigger, M.D. Geology was represented 

 by exhibits by Miss S. M. Thompson, rocks recently collected in Galway, 

 H, J. Seymour, B.A., water-colour drawings of Benevenagh and Fair 

 Head made by the late G. V. DuNoyer; Robert Bell, zeolites from 

 Squire's Hill and Chalk fossils ; W.J. Fennell, fossil plant-remains from 

 Dungannon ; J. St. J. Phillips, micro-slide preparations and the rock- 

 sectioning machine, kindl}^ presented to the Club by Messrs. Combe, 

 Barbour, and Combe. In the Botanical Section exhibits were made by 

 Rev. C. H. Waddell of an educational series of plants and specimens 

 collected by members of the Club during the past session. J. H. Davies 

 showed an immature unnamed Crane's-bill, whilst Mr. V. W. Burbridge, 

 F.L.S., exhibited Azolla in fruit, and odorous leaves from the Trinit}' 

 College Gardens, Dublin. One of the most interesting exhibits, perhaps, 

 was the series of butterflies recently collected in the United States by 

 G. Donaldson, a member of the B.N.F.C. R. J. Welch exhibited a large 

 variety of land and fresh-water shells, taken in various parts of Ireland 

 during the past year ; whilst G. P. Farran, of the Dublin Club, exhibited 

 a number of shells recently collected in Westmeath and Sligo. John 

 Hamilton exhibited living reptiles which attracted much attention. 

 A good exhibit of old Ulster candlesticks and rushlights was made by 

 Robert Ma}- and F. J. Bigger ; an ornamental wrought-iron candlestick 

 from Annalong being much admired. The pictures of the Art Society, 

 which were hung in the galleries, added much to the enjoyment of the 

 evening. In the corridor, the Photographic Society made an exhibit of 

 a large collection of prints sent in for the summer competitions. These 

 showed great artistic refinement and technical skill on the part of the 

 exhibitors. A popular exhibit was that of " Ives Kromskop " by J. Lizars, 

 who had a number of slides showing recent advances in photography 

 in natural colours; whilst R. Welch was able to show on the lantern 



