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



WINTER SESSION. 



ANNUAL CONVERSAZIONE 



N the i st November, the Annual Conversazione in 

 connection with the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, 

 was held in the Public Library and Art Gallery, 

 which had been kindly placed at the disposal of the Club by 

 the Library Committee of the Council of the County Borough 

 of Belfast. There was a very large attendance of the members 

 and their friends, and the proceedings throughout were of a 

 most enjoyable nature. From half-past six until eight o'clock 

 tea, coffee, and other light refreshments were provided in the 

 newsroom, on the ground floor. In the reading room on the 

 first floor there was a general exhibition of objects of interest, 

 chiefly connected with the members' investigations during the 

 summer, the sections represented being geology, zoology, 

 botany, ethnology, and photography. The exhibitors included 

 Miss M. K. Andrews, Mrs. Patterson, LL.D. ; Professor 

 Symington, F.R.S.E. ; Professor Johnson, Messrs. J. St. J. 

 Phillips, B.E. : F. J. Bigger, M.R.I.A. ; A. Speers, B.Sc. ; R. 

 Welch, J. H. Davies, Alexander Milligan, W. Gray, M.R.I.A. ; 

 W. Swanston, F.G.S. ; J. Donaldson, J. Wright, F.G.S. ; J. 

 Lizars, R. May, J. Hamilton, Charles Bulla, R. Bell, O. P. 

 Farran, W. H. Phillips, Alex. R. Hogg, W. J. Fennell, 

 M.R.I.A.; and H. L. Orr. The last named won the Club's 

 prize for a collection of British land shells. Mr. J. H. Davies 

 exhibited freshly gathered mosses of different species, which 

 are to be found in fruit at this season, and the fructification of 

 these was examined with much interest under Mr. Gray's 

 microscope. Mr. Davies had also on the table freshly collected 

 tufts of rare forms of grasses lately detected by him on old 



