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RE PO RT 



BELFAST NATURALISTS' FIELD MB, 



For the Year 1876-77. 



OUR Committee, in presenting their fourteenth Annual 

 Report, have the pleasure of again recording another 

 year of progress. The objects for which the Club was 

 founded have been carried out. Most of the subjects treated of 

 at the winter meetings were of local interest, and your Com- 

 mittee believe that the general public heartily sympathize with 

 you in your endeavours to cultivate a taste for Natural Science, 

 and in elucidating some of the problems presented by the Archae- 

 ology and Natural History of the district. Your Committee have 

 pleasure in stating that the membership, upon which so much of 

 the prosperity of the Club depends, has been more than, main- 

 tained ; and the attendance at the winter and field meetings has 

 been equal to the average of former years. 



The localities chosen for the Summer Excursions gave general 

 satisfaction, affording as they did good opportunities for the 



