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ANNUAL REPORT, 1895. 



The Annual Meeting of the Shareholders was held in the 

 Museum, College Square North, on 22nd July, at four o'clock. 

 Robert L. Patterson, Esq., J.P., F.L.S., President of the Society, 

 occupied the chair, and there were also present Dr. J. A. 

 Lindsay, Dr. John MacCormac ; Messrs. Robert Young, J.P. ; 

 R. M. Young, J.P., M.R.T.A. ; W. H. Patterson, M.R.I.A. ; 

 Wm. Swanston, F.G.S. ; Thomas Workman, J.P. ; J. H. 

 Greenhill, Mus. Bac, John Brown, Edward F. Patterson, and 

 John Horner. 



Mr. R. M. Young (Hon. Treasurer) having read the notice 

 convening the meeting, submitted the Council's report for the 

 past twelve months, which stated : — " The winter Session was 

 opened on the 5th November, 1895, i" the Museum, when the 

 President of the Society, Mr. R. Lloyd Patterson, F.L.S., 

 delivered an address on ' The Migration of Birds,' illustrated by 

 a series of special lantern slides. The second meeting was held 

 on the 3rd December, when Mr. George Coffey, M.A., B.L., 

 Dublin, kindly gave an illustrated lecture — subject, ' From 

 Egypt to Ireland, a chapter in the History of Ornament.' The 

 third meeting was held on the 7th January, 1896, when a 

 lecture was kindly delivered by Mr. Joseph Barcroft, B.Sc, 

 King's College, Cambridge, on ' The Properties of the Surface 

 of Liquids,' illustrated by a large number of experiments. The 

 fourth meeting was held on the 4th February, when Mr. 



