REPORT 



Belfast iEaturalists' Jfttltr Clttti 



FOR THE 



Year ending jist March, 1884, 

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OUR Committee have again the pleasing duty of lay- 

 ing before you their Annual Report, which on this 

 occasion records the work of the twenty-first year of 

 the Club's existence. Arriving at mature age, it is 

 gratifying to be able to state that at no time was your Society 

 more prosperous, whether we consider its increased membership, 

 its financial position, or the value of the work going on. 



The usual number of excursions were held during the past 

 summer, at which the attendance of members was considerably 

 above that of many past years. The suitability of the localities 

 selected no doubt in some measure contributed to this gratifying 

 result ; much more, however, must be attributed to the remark- 

 ably fine weather with which they were favoured, as on each of 

 the six excursions it was in every way the most desirable. A 

 fungus foray on the occasion of the excursion to Shane's Castle 

 was a pleasing and, it is to be hoped, an instructive novelty in the 

 summer programme ; it is also one which in other branches of 



