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CONVERSAZIONE IN THE BELFAST FREE PUBLIC 



LIBRARY. 



An interesting conversazione was held on the evening of the 

 10 Nov., in the Free Public Library buildings, the use of 

 which was kindly granted by the Library Committee of the 

 Belfast Corporation for that purpose. The meeting was under 

 the combined auspices of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, 

 the Belfast Art Society, and the Ulster Amateur Photographic 

 Society. This was the first occasion on which these societies 

 have joined in a conversazione, and the meeting proved a 

 success in attracting a large gathering. The doors were opened 

 to the members at 6-30. On entering, ample cloak-room 

 accommodation was found in the Reading-room, which was in 

 charge of the library officials. Tea was served in the room 

 devoted to the Grainger collection and in the Lending Library. 

 Some of the lady friends of each society acted as teamakers. 

 Afterwards the members were directed to the exhibitions, 

 which were well arranged in the Reference Library and Art 

 galleries. On the tables of the Reference Library were laid out 

 the exhibits by the Field Club, and these illustrated the work 

 done or objects collected during the season by the members in 

 the various branches of natural science and archaeology. In 

 the Microscopic Section the exhibitors were as follow : — Miss 

 M. K. Andrews, rock sections and specimens of Mourne 

 Mountain granite ; William Gray, botanical preparations, recent 

 and fossil ; William Hanna, m.b., radiolaria and sponges ; W. 

 S. M'Kee, freshwater organisms ; and Joseph Wright, f.g.s., 

 foraminifera ; whilst the various organisms which give rise to 

 tvphoid and cholera were exhibited by Lorrain Smyth, m.d. ; 

 W. D. Donnan, m.d. ; Cecil Shaw, m.d.; and E. Coey Bigger, 

 m.d. Geology was represented by exhibits by Miss S. M. 

 Thompson ; H. J. Seymour, b.a., showed water-colour 

 drawings of Benevenagh and Fair Head made by the late G. 

 V. Du Noyer ; Robert Bell, zeolites from Squire's Hill and 



