BELFAST 
HPatural History KX PHhtlosophical Society. 
Tue annual meeting of the shareholders was held at 
the Museum, on the evening of Wednesday, 29th June, 
1853—Mr. Parrerson, President, in the chair. The 
following report was submitted :— 
“ Since the last annual report was laid before the 
shareholders of the Museum, the council have had 
much to claim their attention; and it is now their duty 
to report on the society’s career for the last twelve 
months, and which has been one of the most interesting 
inits annals. The meeting at Belfast of the British 
Association for the Advancement of Science took place 
in the first week of September. As its proceedings 
were fully reported in the public prints, it is unneces- 
sary to allude to them more than that several commu- 
nications were brought forward by members of this 
society, to different sections, during the meeting. It 
had been the general wish of tke local bodies in this 
town to render the meeting as attractive and as agree- 
able as possible to the visiters from other places; and, 
in co-operation with this general desire, the council 
had determined that the collections in the Museum 
should be displayed to the greatest possible advantage. 
Accordingly, for some time before the meeting, very 
considerable exertions were made for this purpose, and 
the entire building, with its contents, was put into such 
a condition of improvement as to be quite satisfactory 
to the council, and who, indeed, were much gratified 
with the result, as it could bear comparison with most 
other provincial museums. The council had intrusted the 
duty of these arrangements to several members of the 
society, whose names they should consider it unjust not 
to record, and also to return them their warmest thanks 
