Hnnual IReport 



Your Committee beg to submit their Fortieth Annual 

 Report. In this Report we have to record, in the first place 

 the ordinary work of the Club, and secondly, the special 

 labours of our Club in contributing to the reception of the 

 British Association during the Belfast meeting, held in 

 September, 1902. 



The Summer Excursions of the Club were held as 

 follows : — 



Glenarm 



Stormont Glen 



Newry 



Enniskillen and Lough Erne 



Giant's Ring 



Monkstown and Ballyclare 



24th May. 



. . ' 7th June. 

 28th June. 

 10th— 14th July. 

 •26th July. 

 16th Aug-ust. 

 Gobbins Cliff Path . . . . . . . . 27th September. 



The average attendance of members at the Field Meet- 

 ings was well sustained ; but it would be desirable that a larger 

 proportion shouH come equipped and prepared for the prac- 

 tical study of Natural History or Archaeology, and so assist 

 the organisation in fulfilling the primary object of the Club's 

 constitution. 



The Winter Session was inaugurated by a highly success- 

 ful Conversazione on 12th November, in the Exhibition Hall, 

 Botanic Gardens Park. Professor Symington notified that 

 the Museum of Queen's College was open to members of the 

 Belfast Naturalists' Field Club for purposes of study. 



The Winter Meetings were as follows : — 



1902. 

 1st Dec. Presidential Address, " Elizabethan Ireland." Mr. F. J. Bigger, M.R.I.A. 

 16th Dec. "Birds and their Breeding Habits." Mr. R. J. Ussher, M.B.O.U. (Lecturer, 

 LF.C.U.) 



