6 [Proc. B.N.F.C., 



The following Excursions were held during the Summer 

 Session : — 



Giants' Ring ... ... \ During 



Newcastle ... ... ... 1 50th Anniversary 



Benevenagh and Portstewart ... 1 Celebration, 



North Coast of Antrim ... ...J ioth-i7th May. 



Newry ... ... ... ... 31st May. 



Lagan Canal (Half-Day) ... ... 14th June. 



Slemish ... ... ... ... 28th June. 



Dublin .... ... ... ... 12th July. 



Garron Point ... ... 26th July. 



Killough (Half-Day) ... 9th August. 



Portmuck ... ... ... 6th September. 



The average attendance at the above was just under 37. 



The Winter Meetings were held in the Museum, College 

 Square North, your Club having been granted the use of their 

 rooms on the usual terms by the Belfast Corporation. The 

 Winter Session was opened by a small Conversazione and 

 Exhibition organised by the various Sections of the Club. At 

 the same meeting the President (Rev. Canon Lett, M.A., 

 M.R.I. A.), gave his Presidential Address — "A Chat about 

 Linne." 



The following papers were read at the Monthly Meetings of 

 the Club held during the Winter Session : — 



1913- 



18th November— "A Chat about Linne," Rev. Canon Lett, M.A., M.R.I. A. 

 16th December — " The Relationship of Plants to their Surroundings,"' G. 



Livens, B.Sc. 

 1914. 

 20th January— " Report as Delegate to British Association Conference of 



Delegates" and "The best means of preventing the 



extinction of Local Species," R. H. Whitehouse, M.Sc. 

 17th February — "The History of Irish Woods and Trees," Professor 



Augustine Henry, F.L.S., M.R.I. A. 



17th March — "How to distinguish our Common Woodlice," Nevin H. 

 Foster, F.L.S., M.R.I.A., and" The History of the 

 Rosapenna Sand-dunes," R. J. Welch, M.R.I. A. 



