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enthusiasts who never get tired of hard work, and who love to 

 gather hard workers round them. Also a paper on "Notices 

 of rare plants that are easily overlooked," by our valued old 

 friend, Mr. Samuel Alexander Stewart, who thus early came to 

 the front with his great botanical knowledge, a knowledge 

 which every member of the Club still hopes may be long at 

 their disposal. 



On November 19th Mr. W. H. Phillips exhibited two 

 specimens of the Common Toad {Bufo vulgaris), the first 

 recorded exhibit, in the Club rooms. 



On this evening an important resolution was passed, and I 

 believe it was never repealed and therefore probably remains 

 in full force, namely, " That papers read be the property of 

 tne Society," the evident intention being to give the Club a 

 right to publish rather than to deprive the author of any 

 claim to his copyright. 



The following papers were read during this winter : — 

 "British Forest Trees," by R. Workman, B.A. ; "Connecting 

 links between plants and animals," by J. S. Holden; "An 

 account of Lough Neagh, historical and physical, with an 

 account of its fishes," by W. H. Patterson; "Lignites of Co. 

 Antrim and their relation to true coal," by Wm. Gray — his 

 first paper to the Club — which he illustrated with a large 

 number of specimens; "The correlation of the Liassic strata 

 of Belfast with those of England," by Ralph Tate; " Nineveh 

 and its remains, by Thomas H. Browne. 



On April 8th the Committee decided to have a Conver- 

 sazione on the 21st inst., in the Museum, that the admission 

 be Is. 6d., and that it be a dress conversazione; also that Mr. 

 Robert Patterson, F.R.S., be requested to act as Chairman. 

 We regard with no little pride the entrance of this famous 

 naturalist amongst the ranks of the Belfast Naturalists' Field 

 Club, the more so as his mantle has fallen on his gifted sons, 

 one of whom we have already mentioned (Mr. W. H. Patterson), 

 in connection with the early building up of the Club, and on 

 his grandson, our present Secretary, Mr. Robert Patterson, 

 whose efforts for the Club in these, its later, years have been 



