Hnnual IReport. 



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The Committee of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club 

 have pleasure in laying before the Society their forty-first 

 Annual Report, which records continued prosperity during 

 the year 1903-4. The membership, which last year stood at 

 312, now numbers 353, 53 new members having been elected 

 during the year which has just closed, while 12 names have 

 been removed from the list through death or other causes. 



The Summer Excursion programme arranged at the first 

 meeting of your Committee was fully carried out, and it is 

 gratifying to report that the attendance of members and 

 visitors was large, the average number present at each of the 

 seven excursions having been upwards of fifty. The localities 

 visited and dates of excursions were as follows : — 



Port Muck .. .. .. .. 23rd May. 



Strangford Lough . . . . . . . . 13th June. 



Greyabbey and Bally waiter (Half-day) .. 27th .Tune. 



Sheephaven District (Long Excursion) . 11th till 14th July. 



Larne Harbour (Half -day) .. . 1st August. 



Armagh and Benburb . . . . . 22nd August. 



Woodburn Glens (Half-day) . . . . . . 5th September. 



Full reports of each of these excursions will be found in 

 the Proceedings. In connection with the Summer Excursions 

 the best thanks of your Committee are due to a number of 

 ladies and gentlemen for kind assistance rendered — to Lady 

 Dunleath, for admission to her well-tended aviary ; to the 

 Earl of Leitrim, to Mr. James Bruce, D.L., and General 

 Montgomery, D.L., for permission to enter their grounds; to 

 Rev. Michael Quinn, for allowing an examination of vest- 

 ments, &c., in Armagh Cathedral; to Messrs. Lloyd, Haldane, 

 and Mills, who courteously guided the members at Benburb ; 

 to the President and Mrs. Fennell, who entertained the party 



