86 tProc. B.N.F.C., 



" REPORT AS DELEGATE TO BRITISH ASSOCIATION." 



ALSO 



A LECTURE ON "LEICESTER: ITS SCENERY 

 AND ANTIQUITIES." 



The fifth meeting of the Winter Session was held in the 

 Museum, College Square North, on Tuesday evening, 1 7th 

 March, for the purpose of hearing a lecture on " Leicester and 

 its Interesting Roman Antiquities" by Mrs. Hobson, a talented 

 lady member of the Club. Mrs. Hobson also submitted her 

 Report as Delegate of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club to the 

 Conference of the British Association. The chair was occupied 

 by the President (Mr. Robert Patterson, F.L.S.) and there was a 

 large attendance of members and friends. 



During the science-gossip half-hour preceding the lecture, 

 Mr. Robert Welch, M.R.I.A., exhibited a new Irish land-shell, 

 Vertigo moulinsiana, discovered in County Carlow, by Mr. R. A. 

 Phillips, a member of the Cork Field Club, of which a full 

 description with drawings appeared in the Irish Naturalist 

 for May. 



Mr. Patterson having introduced the lecturer to the meeting, 

 Mrs. Hobson commenced by describing the town of Leicester, 

 which, she said, was a busy manufacturing town, with fine streets 

 and numerous open spaces. The town is of great historical 

 interest, and contains the remains of Roman walls and beautiful 

 Roman pavements. Leicester, being a favourite resort, was 

 associated with some of the greatest names in history — Simon de 

 Montford, John of Gaunt, Cardinal Wolsey, Prince Rupert, Lady 

 Jane Grey, Mary Queen of Scots, and many other historical 

 personages. Of much antiquarian interest are the beautiful old 

 churches, containing as they do fine examples of Saxon, Norman, 

 and Gothic work. The town could boast splendid examples of 

 modern architecture. The lecturer then described some of the 



