Annual Meeting 103 



14/ h Anarch, ipi6. Museum, College Square North. 



"Mental and Physical Fatigue" : — Professor Valentine, 

 Q.U.B. 



The lectures were illustrated b)' special lantern views and 

 were evidently keenly appreciated by the large audiences present 

 at them. 



RESEARCH WORK. 



Mr. H. C. Lawlor, to whom the Society made a Grant for 

 Research delivered an interesting lecture based on his work, 

 before the members of the Society during the Session. 



Further — In order to encourage Research work in Ulster, the 

 Council offered a prize of ;!^5o for a Monograph on any depart- 

 ment of Botany, or Zoology, or Palaeontology, whilst a fund of 

 ^50 was made available for the purpose of making grants in aid 

 of the expenses incurred in any original research in Science. The 

 conditions under which the prize was offered were as follows : — 



(i) The Monograph must embody original work not hitherto 

 published, and must be in a form suitable for publication. 



(2) Competition is limited to non-professional workers in 



Ulster. 



(3) The Monograph must reach the tlonorary Secretary on or 



before ist November, 1915. 



(4) The Monograph of the successful competitor becomes the 



property of, and may be published by the Society. 



(5) The ccjuncil reserves the right to refuse the prize in case 



of insufficient merit. 

 Scientific workers are invited to apply indicating the scope of 

 the research and giving such evidence of their fitness as may be 

 necessary. 



PROCEEDINGS OF KINDRED SOCIETIES. 



Reports of the Transactions and Proceedings of Kindred 

 Societies both home and foreign were received and acknowledged. 



