BELFAST 



NATURAL HISTORY 

 AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



SESSION 1909-10. 



loth November, igog. 



Address by the President, Sir John Byers 

 "THE ULSTER DIALECT." 



(Abstract.) 



The opening meeting of the Session was held in the Museum, 

 College Square North, when the President (Sir John W. Byers, 

 M.A., M.D.,) delivered a lecture on the subject of " The Ulster 

 Dialect." There was a large attendance, and at the outset of the 

 proceedings 



Mr. R. M. Young, B.A., M.R I.A., hon. secretary of the 

 Society, announced the donation of a very ancient iron mantrap 

 of unusal construction, presented by the Misses Boomer, of 

 Lisburn. Some stone implements, including a rare type of 

 drinking cup made of steatite from Donegal, had been lent for 

 exhibition by Rev. J. Northey. 



On the motion of Professor Lindsay, M.A., seconded by 

 Mr. John Horner, a hearty vote of thanks was passed to the 

 donors and to Mr. Northey. 



Sir John Byers, who was received with applause, having 

 expressed very warmly his feeling of gratitude for the personal 

 compliment paid him in re-electing him President of the Belfast 

 Natural History and Philosophical Society for another year, said 

 he proposed to bring before them that evening, in the inaugural 



