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certainly been more numerous, but that fact may be 
partially accounted for by the diversified list of sub- 
jects and readings, of which the following is a record :— 
BELFAST NATURAL HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHICAL 
SOCIETY—57TH SESSION. 
First meeting, 6th November, 1877—Robert 
Young, Esq., C.E., delivered the introductory address 
“On some questions in which recent researches in 
Science are tending to modify the opinions of Geolo- 
gists.” 
Second meeting, 4th December, 1877-—Robert 
Young., Esq., in the chair. Joseph Wright, Esq., 
reader. Subject: “ Foraminifera, Recent and Fossil.” 
Third meeting, 18th December, 1877—Robert 
Young, Esq., in the chair, John H. Greenhill, Esq., 
reader. Subject: “‘ Professor Graham Bell’s Telephone.” 
Fourth meeting, 8th January, 1875—Robert 
Young, Esq.,in the chair. Thomas Workman, Esq., 
reader. Subject: ‘‘ Spiders.” 
Fifth meeting, 22nd January, 1878—Robert 
Young, Esq., in the chair. Professor Everett, reader. 
Subject: “ Atmospheric Electricity.” ; 
Sixth meeting, 5th February, 1878—Robert 
Young, Esq., in the chair. Wm. Gray, Esq., reader. 
Subject, “The Antiquity of Man, Geologically 
Considered.” 
Seventh meeting, 12th February, 1878—Robert 
Young, Esq., in the chair. (1.) The secretary read 
a communication from Mr. Robert Warren, of Bal- 
lina. Subject, “ Notes on the Occurrence of some 
Rare Birds in Counties of Mayo and Sligo.” (2.) 
Mr. W. H. Patterson read extracts from Mr. William 
Hancock’s letters on “ Notes of a Trip in the neigh- 
bourhood of Ningpo, China.” 
