Your Committee acknowledge with pleasure the courtesy and 

 attention with which the Members of the Society are received in 

 almost every locality they select for their field meetings during the 

 summer months. 



Special thanks are due the Rev. W. Reeves, D.D., for the highly 

 interesting and valuable information he gave the Members who 

 visited Tynan and Caledon ; also to W. F. Wakeman, Esq., who 

 assisted to organise the excursion to Enniskillen, and who accom- 

 panied the party, very much to their advantage ; also to Jas. Alex. 

 Henderson, Esq., Mayor of Belfast, for his generous hospitality 

 on the occasion of a visit to Clandeboye and Ballykillair. 



In recording such instances your Committee are not unmindful 

 of the kindness and attention with which the Rev. John Grainger, 

 D.D., received his fellow Members at Broughshane. 



While referring to the excursions, the Committee desire to draw 

 attention to the discovery of a new Irish plant, on the occasion of 

 the Members' visit to Lough Erne. 



The Irish flora has now been so well investigated, the finding of 

 a species truly indigenous, and not heretofore recorded, is a 

 matter of considerable interest. 



The plant referred to (Hieracium tridentatum) was found by the 

 Rev. S. A Brenan on rocks at the Marble Arch near Florence 

 Court, and is only the second instance of a plant new to the flora 

 of Ireland which the Province of Ulster has yielded for more 

 than ten years past. 



During the winter months meetings were held as usual at the 

 Belfast Museum, alternately with the meetings of the Natural 

 History and Philosophical Society, and the following papers were 

 read before the Club : — 



1872. 

 Nov. 20th. — " The Lignites of Antrim, and their relation to True Coal," by 



Mr. William Gray. 

 Dec. 4th. — "The Capture of Carrickfergus by the French under Thurot, 



in 1760," by Mr. W. H. Patterson. 

 Dec. 18th. — "Life," by Rev. Dr. MTlwaine. 



