ANNUAL CONVERSAZIONE. 



The following is an account of the Annual Conversazione, held 

 in the Museum, on Wednesday, ist May. 



( Extract from the Local Papers.) 

 BELFAST NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB. 



The ninth annual conversazione in connection with this Club 

 took place on Wednesday evening, in the Museum, College Square 

 North. As our readers are already aware, this annual re-union is 

 held for the purpose of bringing before the Club the results of the 

 past year's work amongst the various members — especial attention 

 being, of course, given to the collections which have been sub- 

 mitted by them in competition for the prizes. Occupying the 

 premier position amongst those shown, were Mr. Hugh Robinson's 

 collection of flowering plants, representing 31a species of the 

 plants of Ulster. This collection, which gained the first prize in 

 that class, is to be deposited in the Museum, as a contribution 

 towards the formation of the local herbarium. The prize for field 

 sketches was carried off by Mr. F. W. Lockwood, the subjects 

 being various forms of trap dykes met with in Ulster. Next came 

 a series of drawings of the old Church in Newtownards, and for 

 these Mr. Robert Magill Young received the special prize offered 

 by Mr. John Anderson, J. P., F.G.S. In addition to the prize 

 collections, there were exhibited the various diagrams and 

 specimens used to illustrate the papers read during the Winter 



