1879-1880.] 



WINTER SESSION. 



Note. — The Authors of the various papers, of which abstracts are here appended, 

 are alone responsible for the views expressed in them, 



HE Winter Session was inaugurated by a Conversazione in 

 the Museum, to which the members were invited. The 

 President, William Gray, Esq., M.R.I. A., presided. The 

 following is the report which appeared in the Belfast News-Letter : — 

 " The members of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club inaugurated 

 their Winter Session on the evening of Friday, 7th November, by 

 a Conversazione at the Museum, College Square North, at which 

 there was a large attendance of the members and their friends, 

 amongst whom were his Worship the Mayor (John Browne, Esq., 

 J. P.), Mrs. Browne, &c, &c. The Museum was tastefully deco- 

 rated for the occasion with flags, bannerets, shields, wreaths of 

 evergreens, Chinese lanterns, &c, besides flowers and ferns in pots 

 and vases — in the arrangement of the whole the Committee having 

 been largely indebted to the efficient co-operation of the Messrs. 

 Darragh, of the Museum. Largely contributing to the decorative 

 effect of the rooms was the collection of valuable pictures lent by 

 the friends of the Club, amongst the most liberal of whom must, 

 as on many former occasions, be reckoned Dr. James Moore, Hon. 



