1882-1883.] IS* 



(not exceeding ^10) was granted by your Committee for the 

 purpose, Mr. S. A. Stewart very kindly consenting to take 

 personal supervision of the work ; the results of which will be 

 embodied in your proceedings. 



The Winter Session was opened by a conversazione which 

 was very well attended. The following papers were read at 

 the ordinary winter meetings, the attendance at which was 

 somewhat above the average : — 



2.1st Nov. I. — "Opening Address," by the Vice-President, W.H. Patterson, M.R.I. A. 

 jy ( " On rhe Recent Examination of the Crannoges, Lough Mourne," 

 " ' 1 by Mr. F. W. Lockwood. 



, D TTT I " O" ^^^ Public Libraries' Acts, and the possible consequences of their 

 ' I adoption in Belfast," by Mr. Wm. Gray, M.R.I. A. 



2nd Jan. IV.—" On Sensitive Plants," byT.H. Corry, M.A., F.L.S,F.Z.S,M.R.I.A. 

 ifith T V /"Notes on the Stone Monuments at Carrowmore, Co. Sligo." 



1 (Battlefield of Northern Moytura), by Mr. Charles Elcock. 



, p. L VT I " Notes on Rude Stone Monuments in Antrim and Down," by Mr. 

 ' \ Wm. Gray, M.R.I. A. 



YjT I " A short Notice of Rare Plants recently found in Down and Antrim," 

 " ' " ^ by Mr. S. A. Stewart, F.B.S.Edin. 



, IVf VTTT / " ^" ^"^"g^ Mushrooms and Toadstools — Disease, Blight, and Food- 

 l producing Plants," by the Rev. H. W. Lett, M.A., T.C.D. 



1 7th A IX ^ " '^^^ Military Defences of the Ancient Donjon at Dundrum, Co. 

 ^'^' ■ ) Down," by Mr. J. J. Phillips. 



Your Committee, recognising the fact that the Club now 

 enters upon the twenty-first year of its existence, suggests, that 

 such information as may be in possession of members regarding 

 the foundation of the Club, and such early letters and papers 

 as may be considered of general interest, be collected and 

 brought before the members, with a view to their publication 

 in your proceedings. With the view of giving further eclai to 

 the coming of age of your Society, your Committee have 

 instructed your Secretaries to order a portrait album for its 

 members, which, it is thought, when occupied by portraits of 

 such of its founders as are available, as well as by the general 

 members, will be a source of increasing interest to the Society. 



Your Committee take this opportunity of thanking those 

 who have so kindly assisted the Club during the past year in 



