at, 
BELFAST 
Aatural History and Philosophical Society. 
Tue annual meeting of shareholders was held at the 
Museum, on the 21st June, Robert M‘Adam, Esq., vice- 
president, in the chair. The following report for the 
session of 1853-54 was read by Mr. A. O.’D. Taylor, 
one of the secretaries:— ; 
“This time last year the council submitted to the 
shareholders a report, in which they had the pleasure of 
referring to the meeting, in this town, of the British 
Association for the Advancement of Science—to tie 
collection of Irish antiquities temporarily formed for 
that body, within your Museum, and to other interesting 
topics, which are now passed away. The session which 
has just concluded has no such particular facts to mark 
its career, the arrangements of the Museum and of the 
soeiety having since fallen into their ordinary course. 
As regards the Museum itself, various additions have 
been made to its collections, as detailed in the donation 
list accompanying the present report. ‘The Thompson 
Room is now fitted up with a number of suitable cases, 
in which specimens illustrative of Irish Natural History 
are about being deposited. 
“Other arrangements, with the view of rendering 
part of the specimens more practically useful, are in 
contemplation by the council, and, they expect, will 
at any rate be partly matured during the Summer 
months, by the formation in the large middle room of 
