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want of accommodation for your library, and the in- 
creasing want of space for the due exhibition of col- 
lections, lead your council to think that next year some 
effort might be made to enlarge your premises. The 
Museum was, as is usual, opened last Easter Monday 
to the working classes at 2d each to grown up persons, 
and 1d each for children. Fully 4,000 persons attended, 
showing that though counter attractions are every year 
increasing, the old rule of visiting the Belfast Museum 
on Easter Monday still exercises its traditional influ- 
ence onthe Belfast public. The same scrupulous 
regard and care for the objects exhibited continues as 
in former years. ‘The same arrangement which has 
hitherto subsisted between your society and the 
Naturalists’ Field Club continues. The club meets 
within your walls, and allows the members of your 
society admission to its ordinary meetings. The pro- 
ceedings for 1876-77 have been already circulated, 
their preparation as heretofore being under the editor- 
ship of Mr. Joseph John Murphy and Dr. Henry 
Burden. 
The treasurer’s account herewith submitted shows 
a balance of £53 9s 6d at credit. 
(Signed by order of the council) 
A. O’D. Taytor, Sec. 
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 
Geological Survey of America, seven large bound 
volumes ; Journal of American Geographical Society, 
six volumes ; Smithsonian Report, 1876; Bulletin of 
the American Geographical Society, 1878, five parts ; 
Proceedings of Boston Society of Natural History, 
vol. XVIII. ; American Journal of Conchology, 1871- 
2; Proceedings of the Austrian Geological Society, 
two parts ; Geological Survey of India, four parts ; 
