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



This brought to a close a very interesting evening, ample 

 time being afforded to the members for examining the different 

 books and exhibits displayed upon the table 



21 January, 1896. 



A meeting of the Club was held on Tuesday evening, 21 

 January, in the Museum, when there was a good attendance. 

 The President, F. W. Lockwood, C.E., briefly introduced the 

 lecturer, George H. Carpenter, B.Sc, ex-president of the Dublin 

 Naturalists' Field Club, who came to Belfast under the auspices 

 of the Irish Field Club Union. The lecture was entitled " Our 

 Plants and Animals : Old Inhabitants and New Arrivals." 



The Lecturer dealt with some of the facts presented by the 

 distribution of Irish plants and animals. After stating the 

 pleasure it gave him to address the Belfast Club under the 

 auspices of the Irish Field Club Union, he referred to the 

 conference in Galway last July, and suggested that the 

 assemblage of naturalists of different racial types on that 

 occasion was parrallel to the remarkable mixture of distributional 

 types to be found in Ireland. The lecture was illustrated by 

 photographic lantern slides of animals and plants, maps of 

 their distribution, and views of the places where they had been 

 found. The lecure was frequently applauded, and the lantern 

 slides illustrating it were shown by Lizars. 



The President, in a few well-chosen words, spoke of the 

 entertaining manner in which G. H. Carpenter had brought his 

 interesting subject before the members, also the great benefit 

 the different field clubs in Ireland derived from this interchange 

 of lectures, the North with the South and vice versa 



William Gray and Professor Symington also complimented 

 the lecturer on his instructive discourse. 



