



ANNUAL CONVERSAZIONE. 



The Annual Conversazione was held on Wednesday, 3d May. 



{The following is Extracted from the Local Papers.) 



The Eighth Annual Conversazione in connexion with this 

 club came off in the Museum, College Square. As usual at 

 these reunions, there was a large and fashionable attendance, 

 and this despite a bitterly cold and piercing wind, which blew 

 in gusts and with a fury reminding us more of a night in 

 November than in " the merry month of May." The Museum, 

 as in former years, was lavishly decorated for the event with 

 banners, evergreens, &c, by the sub-committee in charge of 

 the Conversazione — namely, Messrs. Greer Malcolmson, 

 Joseph Wright, Wm. Swanston, S. A. Stewart; with Wm. 

 Gray and Hugh Robinson, secretaries of the club. In their 

 labours, these gentlemen had the assistance and advice of 

 Mr. Wm. Darragh, the curator of the Museum. As our readers 

 are already aware, prominent amongst the articles exhibited at 

 these meetings are specimens connected with the lectures 

 delivered during the past session, and the various collections 

 submitted in competition for the prizes offered by the Club. 

 Amongst the latter, Mr. William Swanston carried off the prize 

 for an assortment of Irish Liassic fossils, which are specially 

 interesting on account of their containing several species not 

 hitherto recorded as Irish. They consisted of seventy-six 

 species, neatly arranged in four drawers, and many of them 



