Annual Meeting. 25 



At the last Annual Meeting it was announced that, on the 

 advice of Sir Charles Brett, two special meetings of the Council 

 and a meeting of the Society had been held (the latter on Sep- 

 tember 24th, 1909) and had passed a resolution "authorising the 

 Council of the Society to make application to the Commissioners 

 of Charitable Donations and Bequests for Ireland for powers, with 

 the consent of the Society, to transfer the collections to the Cor- 

 poration on a basis satisfactory to both parties." 



After full consideration by the Charitable Commissioners and 

 their ofificial advertisement on 15th November, 1909, to all persons 

 concerned, the application of our Society to amend the scheme 

 under which the Society is governed, was passed with the under- 

 standing that the details of the proposed agreement between the 

 Society and the Belfast Corporation must be submitted to the 

 Commissioners for final approval. 



After further negotiations with the Belfast Corporation, on 

 the 23rd March, 1910, a special meeting of the Society was held, 

 at which the following resolution was discussed and passed unani- 

 mously : — " That the Society consents to the Council transferring 

 to the Corporation of the City of Belfast the whole or any part of 

 the collections and specimens, and the cases containing the same, 

 now belonging to, or which may hereafter be acquired by the 

 Society, to be retained permanently by the Corporation, subject to 

 the following conditions, namely : — That, so far as practicable, all 

 specimens, or groups of specimens, so transferred shall always 

 have attached to them a label of some one distinctive colour, on 

 which label there shall be printed words stating, if possible the 

 name of the original donor. 



Since the termination of our official year, the deed of Gift 

 embodying the foregoing resolution, and conveying the collections 

 to the Belfast Corporation, was duly executed on 27th July, 19 10. 

 A Lease of the Museum premises to the Belfast Corporation was 

 also duly executed on the same date. 



Your Curator, Mr. John Sinclair, resigned at the beginning 



