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to tea at Ballywalter ; as well as to other members who 

 assisted the Committee on several occasions. 



The Winter Session was opened with a Conversazione, one 

 of the most successful in your Club's history, held in the 

 Exhibition Hall on 28th October, at which the attendance 

 numbered upwards of four hundred, and the many and varied 

 exhibits proved most attractive and instructive. The dates 

 of the Winter Meetings and the subjects brought forward 

 were as follows : — 



1903. 

 17th Nov. Presidential Address— " The Club's Builders." Mr. W. .J. Fennell, M.R.I. A.I. 

 15th Dec. "Birds, Their Structure, Flight and Habits." Mr. D. C. Campbell. 



1904. 

 19th Jan. 1. "Varieties in British Ferns." Mr. W.H.Phillips. 



2. "Some Souterrains in Antrim and Down." Mrs. B. Hobson. 



3. "Birds and Nests." Mr. W. H. Workman, M.B.O.U. 



4. "Notes on the Discovery of Dopplerite in Sluggan Bog.' Mr. Robert Bell. 



16t.h Feb. "Plant Associations, with Special Reference to the Veg'etation of Ireland." 

 Mr R. LI. Praeger, B.A., B.E M.R.I.A 



15th Mar. 1. "On Helix (Helicella) Zakkarensis, Kobelt, a Rare Algerine Land Shell 

 found alive near Rostrevor." Mr. B,. Welch. 



2. "Geology and Scenery." Mr. Geo. C. Gough, A.R.C.S., F.G.S. 



3. "The Club's influence in promoting the advancement of Science." Mr. 



W. Gray, M.R.I.A. 



19ch April Annual Meeting. 



At all these meetings there was a large attendance of 

 members and friends, and previous to each the usual " Science 

 Gossip Half -hour " was utilised for informal discussion on 

 Natural History subjects. 



The condition of your Library having been discussed at 

 the last Annual Meeting, and your Committee instructed to 

 take steps for its improvement, it was decided to rent from 

 the Natural History and Philosophical Society the room in 

 their Museum vacated by the Ulster Medical Society. This 

 room has been suitably furnished, and your books trans- 

 ferred thereto and catalogued for facility of reference by 

 members. It has been open, in charge of a Member of Com- 

 mittee, every Wednesday evening from seven till nine o'clock ; 

 and your Committee would express the hope that more of the 

 members will avail themselves of these opportunities afforded 



