BELFAST 



NATURAL HISTORY 

 AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



SESSION 1913-14. 



jith November, igi^. 



Professor Lindsay, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P., President, in the Ch- 



" PROGRESSIVE CREATION." 

 P.y Professor Bknjamin Moore, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S. 



The ninety-third session was opened on nth November in 

 the Y.M.C.A. Minor Hall, Wellington Place. There was a large 

 attendance. 



The Chairman said before i)roceeding to the regular business 

 of tlie evening he had one or two announcements to make. At 

 the annual meeting of the Society held a few weeks ago it was 

 announced that the Society was about to undertake the work of 

 scientific research. They had now ;^ioo at their disposal, and 

 they were going to offer a prize of £^^0 for original research in 

 some department of the geology of Ulster. They were going to 

 divide the other ;^5o, which would be allocated to meet the actual 

 cost of research, when applications were made to them by persons 

 who were about to undertake research. It was the first time in 

 the history of the Society that work of that kind had been under- 

 taken. In introducing the lecturer, the Chairman said Professor 

 MoOKE was a Belfast man, of whom they were ali proud. 



The Lecturer, in the course of his remarks, said he would 



