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WINTER SESSION. 



Note. — The authors of the various Papers, of which abstracts are here appended, are 

 alone responsible for the views expressed in them. 



MEETING. 



HE twenty-third Winter Session of the Club was 

 inaugurated by a Social Meeting at the Museum, 

 College Square North, attended by a large gathering 

 of members and their invited friends. From seven to eight 

 o'clock tea and coffee were dispensed by the lady members in 

 the " Old Library," after which a general meeting was held in 

 the lecture-room — the Rev. Canon Grainger, D.D., M.R.I.A., 

 President of the Club, in the chair. 



The President stated that in looking over a copy of " Steed's 

 Travels," written in 1627, he found it stated that Ulster was 

 then the most savage part of Ireland, but the gathering he (the 

 President) saw before him was an indication of the marvellous 

 change since that time. He also quoted a remark made to him 

 by one of the scientific professors of Dublin, that " there were 

 more naturalists in, and about, Belfast than in all the rest of 

 Ireland put together," In the course of some further remarks, 

 he referred to the various encroachments of the sea during the 



