1903-1904.] 



Mintev Session. 



Note. — The authors of the various Papers, of which abstracts 

 are here appended, are alone responsible for the 

 views expressed in them. 



ANNUAL CONVERSAZIONE. 



The Winter Session was inaugurated on 28th October by a 

 Conversazione in the Exhibition Hall. It was one of the 

 largest held in recent years in connection with the Club, over 

 four hundred members and friends being present. Tea was 

 served from 7 to 8 o'clock, the tables being presided over 

 by several lady members of the Club, after which those 

 present had ample opportunity for examining the following 

 interesting exhibits in the Hall. 



Botany. — Mr. N. Carrothers, collection of mounted ferns 

 and flowering plants ; Mr. George Donaldson, North American 

 ferns; Mr. Nevin H. Foster, varieties of the lady fern 

 {Athyrium filix-foemina) ; Mr. P. F. Gulbransen, a new 

 method of mounting plants ; Mr. W. H. Phillips, variations of 

 British ferns; Mr. R. LI. Praeger, M.R.I. A., rare plants from 

 the Ards, including Glyceria festucceformis, new to the 

 British flora; rare plants from Clare Island, Co. Mayo; Rev. 

 C. H. Waddell, B.D., flowering plants from the Isle of Man; 

 rare mosses of Co. Down. 



ZooLOGY.^Mr. F. J. Bigger, M.R.I.A., land-shell pocket 

 material from the Horn Head sand-dunes, containing many 

 vertigos; Mr. John Cottney, birds' eggs; nest of long-tailed 

 tit; Rev. G. Foster, a collection of Irish butterflies and 

 moths ; butterflies and moths collected in Brittany last July ; 

 Mr. W. H. Gallway, living green lizard, etc. ; Mr. W. A. 

 Green, mounted birds, etc.; Rev. W. F. Johnson, F.E.S., rare 

 Irish beetles; Mr. D. E. Lowry, a large pike, mounted; Mr. 

 H. Lamont Orr, nest of bullfinch ; Mr. James Orr, sea urchins 



