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During the Winter Session the following papers were read 



(abstracts of which are appended) : — 



1873. 

 19th Nov. "On the British Association : its Aims and Objects." By Mr. 



William Gray, M.R.I. A. 

 loth Dec. "On Progressive Development." By Mr. George Langtry. 



1874. 

 15th Jan. This Meeting was devoted to the exhibition of Microscopes and 



Microscopic Objects. 

 28th Jan. " On the Surnames of the Inhabitants of the County Antrim, 



and their Indications." By Rev. Edmund M'Clure, A.M., 



M.R.I. A. 

 1 8th Feb. " On Flints, and the Foraminifera, Entomostraca, &c, contained 



in them." By Mr. Joseph Wright, F.G.S., &c. 

 nth March. " Irish Cranoges and their Contents. " By Mr. W. F. Wakeman. 

 15th April. "Notes on the Aurora Borealis, taken in Belfast in the years 



1870-71, with suggestions as to its source, and that of the 



Earth's Magnetism and Magnetic Currents." By Dr. T. H. 



Keown, R.N. 



The Sub-Committee continue the work of re-arranging the 

 valuable collections in the Museum of the Natural History and 

 Philosophical Society, and for this purpose have attended at the 

 Museum every week, without intermission, since last session. 

 The result is that the Herbarium of Flowering Plants is now 

 nearly complete, and considerable progress has been made with 

 that of the Mosses, and in the mounting of the collections of 

 Foreign Shells — the latter are very numerous, and promise to 

 make a very effective display. 



In anticipation of the meeting of the British Association, to be 

 held in Belfast next August, your Committee sent a deputation to 

 the Bradford meeting, with instructions to endeavour to obtain such 

 information as would enable the Club to render effective assistance 

 in preparing for the forthcoming meeting in Belfast. 



The deputation also visited several museums, and obtained hints 

 that will not be lost sight of in the work of re-arranging our local 

 Museum. 



Your Committee, believing that a " Naturalists' Guide" to Bel- 

 fast and the adjacent counties would be acceptable to the members 

 of the British Association and other visitors to the North of Ireland, 



