ANNUAL REPORT, iqi5-i6. 



The annual meeting of the Belfast Natural History and 

 Philosophical Society was held on Friday, 13th October, 1916, in 

 the Museum, College Square North. Professor James A. Lindsay, 

 M.A., M.I)., occupied the chair, in the absence of the president, 

 Professor W. S. Clair Symmers, and the following members were 

 present — Messrs. R. M. Young, M.A., J. P. ; A. W. Ferguson, 

 J.P. ; A. Speers, J. P. ; John Horner, J. E. Magill, Alex. Taylor, 

 N. H. Foster, W. Faren, E. J. Elliott, W. R. Rea, H. C. Mont- 

 gomery, Alex. Milligan, E. Anderson, Henry Riddell, M.E. 

 (honorary treasurer), and John M. Finnegan, B.A. (honorary sec- 

 retary). 



Mr. Finnegan, Hon. Secretary, read the report ot the council, 

 as follows : — ■ 



The Council of the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical 

 Society have pleasure in submitting the Annual Report of the 

 Ninety-fifth Session of the Society. 



LECTURES. 



The following programme of lectures was submitted and 

 carried through in a successful manner : — 



^th November, 1915, Reference Department Hall, Belfast Public 

 Library. 

 " Shipbuilding " : — Mr. Alec Wilson, J.P. 

 idth December, IQIS- Museum, College Square North. 



" Siberia " : — Miss Haviland, 

 iTthJa7iuaty, jgi6. Museum, College Square North. 



"Prehistoric Dwellings and Places": — Mr. PL C- 

 Lawlor, 

 8th Februajy, igi6. Museum, College Square North. 



"The Search for Perpetual Motion"; — -Mr. Henry 

 Riddell, M.E. 



