Belfast matuial Ibietori^ anb pbiloeopbical 

 Society, 



ANNUAL REPORT, 1896. 



The Annual Meeting of the Belfast Natural History and 

 Philosophical Society was held yesterday at the Museum, 

 College Square North. Professor Everett, President, occupied 

 the chair, and the attendance included — xMessrs. T. F. Shilling- 

 ton, John Brown (Hon. Treasurer), Robert Young, j.p.; Robert 

 Lloyd Patterson, j.p., f.l.s.; W. H. Patterson, Wtn. Swanston, 

 J.p. ; John Horner, Robert M. Young, j.p., m.r.i.a. (Hon. 

 Secretary) ; Thomas Workman, j.p. ; Lavens M. Ewart, j.p.; 

 Isaac Ward, William Farren, Ed. Allworthy, John Finnegan, 

 B.sc. ; Dr. Sheldon, Dr. Leathern, Dr. MacCormac. 



The Hon. Secretary read the report of the Council, which 

 was as follows : — " The Council of the Belfast Natural History 

 and Philosophical Society desire to submit their report of the 

 working of the Society during the past year. The winter 

 session was opened on the 3rd November, 1896, in the Museum, 

 when the President of the Society (Professor J. D. Everett, 

 F.R.S.), delivered an inaugural address — subject, ' Recent 

 Advances in Electricity.' The second meeting was held on 

 1st December, when the following papers were read : — ' Dante,' 

 by Dr. J. A. Lindsay ; ' A Recent Discovery of Worked Flints 

 in Submerged Peat at Portrush,'by Mr.W. H.Patterson, m.r.i.a.; 

 and ' Report of the Society's Delegate to the British Association 

 Meeting, 1896,' by Mr. Alex. Tate, m.i.ce. The third 



