Annual Report 



In submitting the forty-seventh Annual Report, your Committee 

 have again pleasure in recording the prosperity of the Club, but 

 desire to bring before you the necessity and desirability of enlisting 

 the services of new workers. Now that some of our principal 

 schools in Ulster have started Natural History Societies, this 

 should prove less difficult than in the past. 



Your Committee regret that owing to the probable transfer of 

 the collections in the Museum of the Belfast Natural History and 

 Philosophical Society to the Belfast Corporation, this is perhaps 

 the last season that the Club will hold its meetings in this 

 building. A Sub-Committee has been appointed, and if your 

 lease, which expires on the ist May, 1910, cannot be renewed, 

 it will be its duty to secure a suitable room for the meetings of 

 the Club. 



During the season just ended 30 new members were elected, 

 of whom 26 have qualified by paying the necessary fees. Against 

 this there have been nine deaths and 25 resignations, leaving the 

 total membership of the Club on ist April, 1910, at 395. The 

 large number of resignations is mainly owing to former members 

 ceasing to reside in our district. 



Nine Committee meetings were held during the year, at 

 which the average attendance was 11. 



The Programme which had been arranged for the Summer 

 Session was duly carried out, the following being a list of the 

 Excursions : — 



