REPORT 



OF THE 



Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, 



FOR THE 



Year ending jist March, 1885. 



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lOUR Committee, in presenting their twenty-second 

 Annual Report, have pleasure in recording the con- 

 tinued prosperity of the Society, and the steady 

 co-operation of the members generally in furthering 

 its aims and objects. The year which now closes has been one 

 of quiet progress, unmarked by any feature calling for special 

 notice from us. 



Ten excursions were held during the summer. Four of 

 these, being additional to the ordinary programme, were orga- 

 nised with a view to the examination of special features within 

 easy reach of the town, and were conducted by members of 

 Committee specially qualified for the duty. One of these short 

 excursions was to the Botanic Gardens, where a resolution was 

 passed to the effect, that the Club regretted the want of a 

 classified botanical collection of growing plants in Belfast, and 

 the hope was expressed that such a collection would soon be 

 made, either at the Botanic Gardens or Ormeau Park. 



