1913-1914.] !0 



Prof. G. H. Carpenter, B.Sc, M.R.I.A.— Dublin ; Mr. 

 Robert Cochrane — Dublin; Dr. W. S. Elliott — Birmingham; Dr. 

 Wheeldon Hinde — Stoke-on-Trent ; Prof. T. Johnson — Dublin ; 

 Mr. D. C. Patterson — Belfast; Mr. W. Denison Roebuck — Leeds; 

 Dr. R. F. Scharff, B.Sc, M.R.I.A.— Dublin ; Mr. John W. 

 Taylor — Leeds; Mr. R. Standen — Manchester; Dr. B. M. Peach 

 — Edinburgh ; Mr. J. R. le B. Tomlin — Reading ; Mr. Joseph 

 Wright, F.G.S.— Belfast; and Rt. Hon. Robert Young— Belfast. 



The President said : — Ladies and gentlemen — It gives me 

 very great pleasure to occupy the chair on this auspicious occasion, 

 when we are celebrating the Jubilee of the Belfast Naturalists' 

 Field Club. I offer a very hearty welcome to all those who have 

 come to us from England, Scotland, and the various parts of 

 Ireland to see how we conduct ourselves when investigating 

 Nature here. I am glad to meet you all. Some of you I know by 

 name, but I don't think I ever met any of you in the flesh before, 

 and it is a greater pleasure to me to extend the welcome of our 

 Club to you who have come from across the water and other 

 places. The speakers who will follow me will tell you something 

 of the doings of our Club in the past, and I hope some of the 

 speakers may touch on the point of how to increase the influence 

 of our Club, and to enlarge the number of workers in the society. 

 We have a long list of friends to address us, and I now ask Mr. 

 Praeger, our Vice-President, a Delegate from the Royal Irish 

 Academy, to give you a short history of the Club. 



Mr. R. Lloyd Praeger, Vice-President of the Club and 

 Delegate from the Royal Irish Academy, said : — I have been 

 asked by the Committee who have made the arrangements for this 

 meeting to sketch briefly the history and work of the Belfast 

 Naturalists' Field Club, whose Fiftieth Anniversary we are 

 assembled here to celebrate. I should have preferred that this 

 honourable duty had fallen to one of those earliest members 



