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WINTER SESSION. 



Not*. — The authors of the various Papers, of which abstracts are here appended, are 

 alone responsible for the views expressed in them. 



SOCIAL MEETING. 



HE Winter Session was opened on 28th October with 

 a Social Meeting in the Exhibition Hall, Botanic 

 Avenue. On the occasion of the Social Meeting last 

 year, the accommodation at the Belfast Museum in College 

 Square proved, for the first time in the Club's history, inadequate 

 for the large attendance of members and their friends, and on 

 the present occasion the spacious hall in Botanic Avenue was 

 filled to overflowing, the numbers far exceeding those of any 

 meeting since the foundation of the society. From seven to 

 eight o'clock tea was dispensed by an active body of lady mem- 

 bers. Immediately after tea, the chair was taken by the 

 President, who, in his opening remarks, drew attention to the 

 steady progress and growth of the Clubhand to its present very 

 satisfactory condition, as shown by the large attendance of 

 members and visitors, and the valuable and interesting collec- 

 tions, mainly the work of members, that were on view. After 

 some announcements by the secretaries, the meeting became 

 general, and the company spent a busy and profitable time in 

 examining the works of nature and art that crowded the tables 

 and walls. The speciality of the evening was an extensive 

 collection illustrating the past condition and history of the City 

 of Belfast and district. 



On a centre screen was arranged one of the best collections 

 of maps ever shown in Belfast illustrative of local and general 



