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ANNUAL REPORT, 1898. 



The Annual Meeting of the Shareholders of this Society was 

 held on i8th July, at three o'clock, in the Belfast Museum, 

 College Square North. Mr. Thomas Workman, J.P., President, 

 occupied the chair, and the attendance included Drs. MacCormac 

 and Leathern, Messrs. Geoge Kidd, J. P.; Robert Young, J.P.; 

 Edward Allworthy, W. H. Patterson, J. H. Davies, Joseph 

 Wright, John M'Knight, W. M. F. Patterson, Isaac Ward, 

 Seaton F. Milligan, John Brown, W. Faren, G. F. Patterson, 

 and Robert M. Young, B.A., M.R.I.A., Hon. Secretary. Letters 

 of apology for non-attendance were received from the Lord 

 Mayor (Mr. Otto Jaffe, J.P.) and Sir James Henderson. 

 The notice convening the Meeting having been read, 

 Mr. Robert Young, Hon. Secretary, submitted the annual 

 report, which stated : — " The Council desire to submit to the 

 shareholders their report of the working of the Society during 

 the past year. The winter session was opened on 8th November, 

 1898, when the President of the Society, Mr. Thomas Workman, 

 J.P., delivered an inaugural address on the subject '* Incentives 

 to the Study of Natural History," illustrated by limelight views, 

 &c. The second meeting was held on 6th December, 1898, 

 when a paper was read by Mr. Walter Chambers, C.E., on 

 " Refuse Disposal and Sewage Purification," illustrated by 

 diagrams, &c., followed by an interesting discussion. The third 

 meeting was held on 13th December, 1898, when a paper was 

 read by Mr. Arthur J. Martin, A.M.LC.E., Exeter, on " The 

 Purification of Sewage by Bacteria," illustrated by limelight 



