1907-1908.] ^ 



remember Mr. Stewart's many and valuable contri- 

 butions to local scientific research, and they unite in 

 wishing him many happy days of leisure." 



The Winter Session was opened as usual with a Conversazione, 

 which was held in the Patterson Museum, People's Palace, 

 Donegall Road, on Friday Evening, 25th October, at which over 

 500 members and friends were present. 



A complete list of Lectures and Papers delivered at the 

 Ordinary Monthly and Sectional Meetings is as follows : — 



1907. 

 Tuesday, 19th November — "Links in Man's Ancestral Chain," Professor 

 C. J. Patten, M.A., M.D., D.Sc. 



Notes on the Discovery of Bythinia leachii, Mr. Robert 

 Welch, M.R.I. A. 



Monday, 25th November — " The Great Burial Mounds of Lough Crew," 

 Mrs. Hobson. 



Wednesday, 27th November — " An Elementary Outline of Zoology," Mr. 

 Nevin H. Foster, M.B.O.U. 



Tuesday, 10th December — " A Week with Field Club Union, Cork," at which 

 the following subjects were brought before the Club :— 



Isopods, Mr. N. H. Foster, M.B.O.U. 

 Mammoth Cave, Mr. J. L. S. Jackson. 

 Ornithology, Mr. Robert Patterson, F.L.S. 

 Conchology and General Geology, Mr. Robert 

 Welch, M.R.I. A. 



Archaeology, Mr. W. H. Gallway. 

 Saturday, 14th December — " Local Botanical Field-Work in 1907," Mr. 

 W. J. C. Tomlinson. 



"Cluster-Cups; and Microscopic Fungi," Mr. Sylvanus 

 Wear. 



Tuesday, 17th December— "The Tombs, Temples, and Pyramids of Egypt," 

 Mr. Thomas Plunkett, M.R.I. A. 



Thursday, 19th December — "A Chat on Crystal Forms," Mr. Thomas 

 Dewhurst, A.R.C.Sc. 

 1908. 



Wednesday, 8th January — "The Scandinavians in Ireland," Major R. G. 

 Berry, M.R.I. A. 



" Kells Abbey," Mr. Joseph Skillen. 

 Wednesday, 15th January — "The Derbyshire Toadstones," Miss M. K. 

 Andrews. 



