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BecrAST MUSEUM. 
Ivy pursuance of advertisement, the annual meeting of 
shareholders was held at one o’clock on Wednesday, 
the 16th instant, in the Museum, College Square North. 
There were present—Mr. Patterson, Mr. M‘Adam, Rev. 
Mr. Steen, Mr. A, O’D. Taylor, Mr. R. L, Patterson, 
Professor James Thomson, Dr. Wyville Thomson, Mr. 
William Dobbin. 
The President, Mr. Patterson, occupied the chair. 
Mr. Taytor (the seeretary) read the following 
** REPORT TO THE SHAREHOLDERS OF THE BELFAST 
MUSEUM FOR 1868—1869. 
**The council who have presided over the interests of 
the shareholders for the past twelve months have now 
the honour of laying before you their annual report. 
The buildings and fittings-up are in good order, and have 
been preserved in that condition by the ordinary outlay. 
Your income, supplemented as it nowis, by the interest 
accruing from the £500 presented last year in connexion 
with the Porter bequest, and now temporarily invested, 
has proved sufficient, by economical expeuditure, to 
meet all requirements, The ventilation in the middle 
large room, used for lecturing in, has been improved by 
the conductors of the Ladies’ Institute, to whom your 
