ANNUAL CONVERSAZIONE. 



The following is an account of the Annual Conversazione, held 

 in the Museum, on Wednesday, 23rd April : — 



(Extract from Local Papers.) 



This thriving and vigorous young society, of which Belfast may 

 well feel proud, recently held their Annual Meeting, at which the 

 very satisfactory report for the past season was read, and arrange- 

 ments for the ensuing season decided upon. The Annual Con- 

 versazione of the Society, preparatory to the opening of the summer 

 season, was held on Wednesday evening, in the Belfast Museum, 

 College Square. These very agreeable scientific reunions are held 

 chiefly for the purpose of affording an opportunity for the members 

 as well as the friends of the Society to meet together for the purpose 

 of discussing, in conversational style, the various subjects which 

 have occupied the attention and investigation of the members of 

 the Club during the previous season. Although on such occasions 

 all matters having any connexion with the interests of the Society 

 are embraced, yet these meetings have special reference to the 

 subjects which have come under the attention of the Club during 

 the winter's proceedings. These conversazioni are nominally con- 

 fined to the members of the Club, and this imparts to them some- 

 what of a private character ; but there is usually such an addition 

 of select, cultivated guests, as to render the occasion agreeably free 

 and informal. More diversity of tastes and opinions are introduced, 

 and, as a consequence, the conversation and comments are more 



