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The average attendance at these excursions was but 29. 

 This compares unfavourably with that for the two previous years 

 when the average attendance was respectively 42 and 53. Your 

 Committee regret that the Summer Excursions were not so well 

 patronized as in former years and would welcome any suggestion 

 whereby these field-days could be made more popular. 



The work done upon the Excursions of the Club, as well as 

 that accomplished at the excursions held by the various Sections, 

 will be found in the Proceedings. At the Conversazione opening 

 the Winter Session 250 members and friends were present: this 

 important meeting of the Club was held in the Assembly Build- 

 ings on 28th October, 1911. 



The Winter meetings were held as heretofore in the Museum, 

 College Square North, your Club having again been granted the 

 use of their rooms on the old terms by the courtesy of the Belfast 

 Corporation. The following papers were read at the Monthly and 

 Sectional Meetings held during this Session : — 



1911. 



Tuesday, 21st November- •-" Sandhills : their Formation, Fauna and Flora," 

 The President (Robert J. Welch, M.R.I.A.). 



Saturday, 25th November — " Concerning Plant Societies : an introduction to 

 the stud)- of Types of British Vegetation," W. J. C. 

 Tomlinson. 



Wednesday, 29th November — " Water Supply from Underground Sources," 

 A. R. Dwerryhouse, D.Sc, F.G.S. 



Wednesday, 6th December — " A Talk about Birds," Nevin H. Foster, 

 M.B.O.U. 



Wednesday, 13th December — " Notes on the Fauna of Cavan," Members of 

 the Zoological Section. 



Saturday, 16th December — "The Vegetation of Calcareous Soils," S. A. 

 Bennett, B.A., B.Sc. 



Tuesday, 19th December — " The Raths of an Ancient Settlement between the 

 Bann and Maine Rivers, on the Banks of Lough Neagh," 

 Francis Joseph Bigger, M.R.I. A. 



1912. 



Wednesday, 3rd January — " Forest Trees," Arthur Deane. 



Wednesday, 10th January — " Rare Birds in the Municipal Collection," J. A. 

 Sidney Stendall. 



