i8o The Irish NatKralist. [July, 



BEI.FAST Naturai. History and Philosophical Society. 

 June 14.— Annual Meicting.— Mr. John Brown, J. P., President- 

 Elect in the chair. 



Mr. R. M. Young, Hon. Secretary, read the notice convening the 

 meeting, and afterwards submitted the annual report, which recorded 

 the work of the winter session and enumerated the papers read, adding 

 that the (xilchrist course of lectures had been ver)- successful, and that a 

 nioiety of the balance remaining after all expenses were paid had been 

 handed to the Council b}- the local Committee, with the recommendation 

 that artisans should be admitted to the Museum b}- ticket on certain 

 daj-s. After referring to the additions to and changes in the Museum 

 collections, the report deplored the loss of the President, the late Mr. 

 Thomas Workman, J. P., who died after a short illness at St. Paul's, 

 Minnesota, on the nth of Ma}- last. He had been for many 3'ears an 

 active and valued member of our Society, and of the Council, in which 

 he was a vice-president and librarian. During his two years of office as 

 president he was most zealous for the interests of the Society, and in 

 last September was chosen to issue the city's invitation to the British 

 Association at the Dover meeting. Council, at their annual meeting on 

 the 6th inst., unanimously passed a resolution recording their deep 

 sense of the lOvSs the Society, the scientific public, and the communit}' at 

 large had sustained in his removal, and tendering to his widow and family 

 their deep sympathy with them in their sad and sudden bereavement. 

 The Council also received with much regret the announcement of the 

 deaths of Professor John F. Hodges, M.D., a former President of the 

 Society, and of James Thompson, J. P., one of the oldest and most valued 

 members, whose brother William died when President in 1852. Captain 

 Robert Campbell, the donor of many valuable specimens in the Museum, 

 has also passed awa}' much regretted. The meeting was asked to elect 

 five members of Council, in place of the five who retire by rotation and 

 are eligible for re-election, viz.. Professor P'itzgerald, President Hamilton, 

 T. F. Shillington, Sir Otto JafFe, and R. M. Young. 



The Treasurer (Mr. W. H. F. Patterson) submitted the financial 

 statement, which showed a balance of £^0 to the Society's credit, in 

 addition to ;<^4oo invested in York-street Company debentures. He 

 added that the subscriptions showed a slight falling off, which had been 

 the case for several years past. 



President Hamilton moved the adoption of the report, which was 

 seconded by Mr. R. Ll. Patterson, and passed. 



The retiring members of Council were then re-elected, and the officers 

 for the year elected as under : — President, Mr. John Brown, J.P. : Vice- 

 Presidents, Rev. Dr. Hamilton, Messrs. R. Ll. Patterson, D.L., Robert 

 Young, J. P., and William vSuanston ; Hon. Secretary, Mr. R. M. Young, 

 J.P. ; Hon. Librarian, Mr. J. H. Davies. 



Tlie Hon. Secretary reported that Mr. Davies had discovered three 

 species of mosses which were new in Ireland, specimens of which would 

 be placed in the Herbarium. 



