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WINTER SESSION. 



SOCIAL MEETING. 



The thirty-first session of the Club was inaugurated on 

 Wednesday evening, 1st November, by a social meeting in the 

 Exhibition Hall, Botanic Gardens. Upwards of five hundred 

 members and friends were present. Between seven and eight 

 o'clock tea was partaken of, the teamakers being as follow : — 

 Miss Andrew, Miss M. K. Andrews, Mrs. St. Clair Boyd, Mrs. 

 Blair, Mrs. Carter, Miss Coulson, Miss Gray, Miss Hamilton, 

 Mrs. Heron, Mrs. Ferguson, Mrs. Lockwood, Mrs. Leslie, Miss 

 Clara Patterson, Miss Praeger, Miss Porter. Miss Phillips, Miss 

 Rea, Mrs. Stelfox, Mrs. Proctor Smyth, Miss A. H. Tate, Miss 

 S. M. Thompson, Mrs. Vinycomb, Mrs. Walker, and Mrs. 

 Wright. 



After tea, the chair was taken by the President, who welcomed 

 all present, and referred to the leading features of the pro- 

 gramme of exhibits. The principal exhibit, he explained, was 

 a collection of Irish gold ornaments which had been brought 

 together by Mr. Day, of Cork. In addition to the other 

 exhibits, which they would find interesting and instructive, 

 there would be a lantern display of living organisms, photos 

 taken on Club excursions and other places. Prominent amongst 

 the exhibits were the Irish gold ornaments referred to. Of 

 these there was, as stated, a large and valuable collection, 

 shown by Robert Day, J.P., M.R.I.A., high sheriff of Cork. 

 There were decorated plaques, lunettes, fibulas, ring money 

 (Scandinavian and Celtic), neck ornaments, bracelets, and 

 amulets, pins, brooches, &c. This was one of the finest and 

 most valuable collection of antiquities ever shown in Belfast. 



