404 LProc. B.N.F.C., 



Mintet Session. 



Note. — The autJiors of the various Papers of which 

 abstracts are here appended, are alone responsible for iJie 

 vieivs expressed in them. 



ANNUAL CONVERSAZIONE. 



The Forty-third Winter Session of the Club was inaugurated 

 in the usual way by a, conversazione on the evening of Tuesday, 

 October 17th. This was held in the Exhibition Hall, which 

 was tastefully decorated with plants, and for which our thanks 

 are due to Mr. M'Kimm. There was a large attendance of 

 members and friends, over four hundred being present, and 

 among whom were representatives from the Tyrone and Dublin 

 Field Clubs. Tea was dispensed from seven to eight o'clock, 

 the ladies who' kindly presided at the tea-tables being — Mrs. 

 Courvoisier, Mrs. R. A. Dawson, Mrs. N. H. Foster, Mrs. 

 Gallway, Mrs. W. A. Green, Mrs. H. L. Orr, Mrs. Robert 

 Patterson, Mrs. Vinycomb, Mrs. Wheeler, and Mrs. J. Wright. 

 During and after the tea the exhibits received well-merited 

 attention, and there was always a little crowd round each of 

 them. While every exhibit was of interest, yet there were 

 several that were very attractive tO' people whether 

 Naturalists or not. Such were Professor Wilson's exhibit of 

 living marine animals, such as crabs, fish, &c. ; Mr. Sharman 

 Neill's beautiful exhibition of silver; Mr. Dawson's 

 exhibition of pottery, which showed what could be done in the 

 direction of making pottery locally. The full list is as follows : 



Botany. — N. Carrothers, some rare plants from Down and 

 Antrim, collected in 1905; C. M. Cunningham, specimens 



