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28th Ja 



'" A Contribution to the Post-tertiary Fauna of Ulster," by R. Lloyd 



Praeger, B.E. 



"Three Days on Rathlin Island, with Notes on its Flora and Fauna," 



R. Lloyd Praeger, E.E. 



f"A Gossip about British Ferns and their Varieties, with Notices of 

 19th Feb. J ^^ F . nd ^„ hyWR p hmips> 



In addition to these Lecture Evenings, an Opening Social 

 Meeting was held in the Museum on November 13th, which 

 was largely attended, and a microscopic evening was held on 

 March 26th, when an instructive hour was spent in the 

 manipulation of the microscope, and in a survey of the lesser 

 world which it reveals. 



Your Committee take this opportunity of calling the 

 attention of the members of the Club to the circular recently 

 issued under the auspices of the Belfast Natural History and 

 Philosophical Society, by Messrs. Robert Patterson and R. 

 Lloyd Praeger, on the proposed " Vertebrate Fauna of Ulster," 

 and of inviting their co-operation in promoting the valuable 

 objects to which it is directed. 



It is with profound regret that your Committee have to 

 record the decease, upon the nth April, of their fellow-member 

 and late President, Mr. Hugh Robinson, M.R.I.A. Their 

 feelings may perhaps be best expressed in the words of a re- 

 solution passed by them upon the next day, and which they 

 here subjoin : — " It is with deep sorrow that the Committee of 

 the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club have to record the death of 

 their esteemed colleague, Hugh Robinson, M.R.I.A., one of the 

 founders of the Club. Whilst they acknowledge his untiring 

 services for many years as Hon. Secretary, and his subsequent 

 cordial interest in the Club's work during his terms of office 

 as Vice-President and President, they feel that their loss is far 

 more than that of a mere colleague, however able ; it is of a 

 tried and sincere friend. They tender to Mrs. Robinson and 

 the other members of his family their deep sympathy in this 

 painful bereavement." 



