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[Proc. B.N.F.C., 



The Committee beg to thankfully acknowledge the kind 

 permission of the Countess of Shaftesbury to visit the Deerpark, 

 and of Robert Armstrong, Esq., to pass through the grounds of 

 Thronemount, on the occasion of the excursion to Cave Hill ; 

 and the valuable assistance of Mr. B. D. Wise, A.M.I.C.E., a 

 member of the Club, to the geologists at Whitehead. 



The Winter Session opened on November ist with a Social 

 Meeting, the attendance at which was above the average of 

 some years past. An exhibition illustrative of the art of 

 chromo-lithography was made the speciality of the evening, 

 and through the courtesy of three well-known local firms, to 

 whom the best thanks of the Committee are due, a very 

 interesting and instructive exhibition was brought together. In 

 addition to an evening devoted to the microscope, to be presently 

 referred to, five ordinary meetings were held, at which thirteen 

 different communications were brought forward. The dates 

 and particulars of the Winter meetings, all of which were well 

 attended, are given below. 



Social Meeting. 



Opening Address by the President. 



" A Notice of some ancient Grave-slabs found near Dundonald," W. 



H. Patterson, M.R.I. A. 

 "On Foraminifera which construct their Tests of Sponge-spicules," 



Joseph Wright, F.G.S. 



"The Primrose and its Allies," W. D. Donnan. 

 "Some new or rare North of Ireland Plants," R. Lloyd Praeger, B. E. 

 I " Strange Pets I have had," W. H. Phillips, F.R.H.S. 

 Proposal to transfer the books which the Club has received as exchanges 



or otherwise to the Belfast Free Public Library ; the Secretaries. 

 Suggestion to form a Joint Microscopical Section of the C lub and 



Natural History and Philosophical Society ; the Secretaries. 

 " Four Days in Arran." F. W. Lockwood. 

 { " A Chat about Lichens," Henry Davis. 

 I «The Birds of the Bog Meadows," Robert Patterson. 

 Microscopical Evening. 



" Notes on some rare Mosses and Hepatics found in Ulster," Rev H. 

 W f Lett, M.A. 

 The Gold Antiquities of Ireland," C. Winston Dugan, M.A, 



ist Nov. 

 19th Nov. 



1 6th Dec. 



aoth Jan. 



17th Feb. 

 17th March 



14th April 



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