REPORT. 



The Committee of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club now 

 lay before the members their thirty-first Annual Report. The 

 past year has been one of continued success, showing a large 

 increase in membership and in work done under the Club's 

 auspices. At the end of last year the membership stood at 

 404 ; it; has now reached 461, after allowing for removals by 

 death and other causes, the largest number ever reached since 

 the Club's loundation. 



The Summer Session was one of great interest and instruc- 

 tion ; it included one three-day excursion, five whole day 

 excursions, and one half-day excursion. On the occasion of 

 the three-day excursion to Newry and Carlingford an alliance 

 was formed with the Dublin Field Club, which, it is trusted, 

 will be a permanent one, and it is hoped that similar re-unions 

 may be arranged each summer, as such are found profitable to 

 both Clubs. 



The following is a list of the excursions : — 



Antrim and Moylinne 

 Lower Ards ... 

 Black Head ... 

 Dundalk and Carlingford 

 Bally nahinch ... 

 Giant's Causeway 

 Loughbrickland 



20th May. 



10th June. 



24th June. 



4th, 5th, and 6th July. 



29 th July. 



26 th August. 



1 6th September. 



The attendance at these excursions varied from fifty- three at 

 Giant's Causeway to fourteen at Dundalk. In connection with 

 these excursions it is hoped that more practical work will be 

 done at them, and that individual members will strive to do 

 something to advance scientific knowledge, so that a pleasant 

 trip in the country may not be considered the chief end of our 



