ANNUAL REPORT. 1909-10. 



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The annual meeting of the shareholders of this Society was 

 held on October 12th, 19 10, in the Belfast Museum, College 

 Square North. Professor Sir John Byers, M.A., M.D. (Presi- 

 dent), occupied the chair, and the attendance included the Right 

 Hon. Robert Young, J.P. ; Sir Charles Brett, Professor J. A. 

 Lindsay. M.A., M.D. ; Dr. S. W. Allworthy, Messrs. Seaton F. 

 Milligan, J.P., M.R.I. A. ; Maurice F. FitzGerald, W. H. F. 

 Patterson, John Horner, (honorary treasurer), A. T. Jackson, 

 Wilham Gray, M.R.I. A. ; William Faren George M, M,Neill, 

 Henry Riddell, M.E. ; Robert Patterson, F.L.S. ; H. C. Mont- 

 gomery, W. Swanston, and Robert M. Young (honorary 

 secretary). Apologies for absence were received from Sir Otto 

 Jaffe, J, P. ; Mr. Nevin H. Foster, and Mr. R. A. Mitchell. 



The notice convening the meeting having been read. 



The Hon. Secretary submitted the Annual Report, which 

 gave a record of the work done during the past Session as 

 follows : — 



The Council of the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical 

 Society desire to submit their report of the working of the Society 

 during the past year. 



The Winter Session was opened in the Museum on the loth 

 November, 1909, with an address on the subject of "The Ulster 

 Dialect," by the President, Sir John VV. Byers, M.A., M.D. 



A Special Meeting was held on 26th November, when a 

 lecture was kindly delivered by Mr. A. Percival Graves, M.A. ; 

 subject, "Sir Samuel Ferguson, Poet and Patriot," 



The Third Meeting took place on 14th December, when an 

 illustrated lecture was kindly given by Mr. Robert J. Kennedy, 

 C.M.G., D.L. ; subject, " The River Plate of South America and 

 the Falkland Islands," with some notes on latter by the Hon. 

 Mrs. Kennedy. 



