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Naturalists’ Field Club, have been read on alternate Wed- 
nesday evenings with the Club’s papers, so that the proceed- 
ings of one society could not possibly interfere with those of 
the other. Your society has held ten evening meetings— 
seven of them public, and three private. The following 
list furnishes the names of readera and the titles of the 
papers read :— 
LIST. 
“1st meeting, public: lst November, 1871; the presi- 
dent, Joseph John Murphy, Esq., F.G.8., delivered an 
introductory address on ‘ Motive Power.’ 
“2d meeting, public : 29th November, 1871; Professor 
James Thomson, LL.D., gave a lecture entitled, ‘Specu- 
lations on the Continuity of the Fluid State of Matter, and 
on transitions between tbe Gaseous, the Liquid, and the 
Solid States.’ 
“3d meeting, private : Gth December, 1871; Professor 
J. D. Everett read, ‘On the Reduction of Observations of 
Wet and Dry Thermometers ; and on same evening Robt. 
Young, Esq., C.E., made a communication entitled, ‘Some 
Remarks on the Recent Changes ef Coast-level at Bally- 
holme Bay, County Down,’ 
“4th meeting, public: 20th December, 1871, John 
Anderson, Esq., F.G.8., read on ‘The Geological For- 
mations of the County Down.’ 
“5th meeting, public: 28d January, 1872; William 
Bottomley, Esq., J.P., read on ‘ Recent Excayations in 
Rome.’ 
“6th meeting, public: 24th February, 1872; the Rey. 
George Macloskie, M.A., read ‘ On the silicified wood of 
Lough Neagh, with notes on the structure of coniferous 
wood.’ 
“7th meeting, public: 2lst February, 1872; Thomas 
M. Lindsay, Hsq., Head Master of the School of Art, 
Belfast, gave a lecture on ‘Hgyptian Art.’ 
“8th meeting, private: 13th March, 1872; Joseph 
John Murphy, Esq., F.G.S., read on ‘The Bernina Lakes ;? 
and on same evening, James Thomson, Hsq., LL.D. ex- 
plained and showed in operation, ‘The Calculating Ma- 
chine of M. Thomas, of Colmar.’ 
“Oth meeting, public: 20th March, 1872; Hiram Shaw 
Wilkinson, Hsq., A.M., read on ‘ Political and Social Re- 
yolutions ia Japan.’ 
“10th meeting, public: 17th April, 1872; Robert 
Young, Esq., C.H., read on ‘The Duty of preserving Na- 
tional Monuments,’ 
