Annual Meeting. 3 



British plants is still far from being so. At the Easter holidays 

 the Museum was less crowded than it has been on some former 

 occasions. Nevertheless the attendance was very large, and at 

 times the building was taxed to its utmost capacity. On 

 ordinary days the admissions continue much as in recent years. 

 Since the last annual meeting the Society has to deplore the 

 loss of one of its most valued members — the late Mr. Lavens M. 

 Ewart, J.P. He was a most useful and active member of the 

 Council since 1894, and took the greatest interest in the well- 

 fare of the Society in every way. A vote of condolence with 

 his widow and family was passed at the first public meeting 

 after his lamented decease. Your Council have co-opted the 

 Lord Mayor of Belfast (Mr. Otto Jaffe, J.P.) to fill the vacancy 

 caused by his untimely death. They have received with much 

 regret Mr. John H. Greenhill's resignation from the Council 

 owing to change of residence. A list of donations to the 

 Musem and of publications received in exchange from home and 

 foreign scientific societies will be printed with the present 

 report. The Council desire to tender their best thanks to the 

 local Press for their admirable reports of the Society's meetings. 

 This meeting will be asked to elect five members of Council in 

 place of the following gentlemen, who retire by rotation, the 

 first three of whom are eligible and offer themselves for re- 

 election : — Messrs. John Brown, William Swanston, W. H. F. 

 Patterson, Professor FitzGerald, and John H. Greenhill." 



Mr. Wm. H. F. Patterson, Assistant Treasurer, read the 

 Treasurer's report, which showed a balance in hands of 

 ^76 IS. 2^d. The donations had increased during the year, 

 but there was a slight decrease in subscriptions. 



Dr. MacCormac, in moving the adoption of the report and 

 statement of accounts, said it afforded him much pleasure to do 

 so on account of their financial condition, and also because of 

 the growing interest taken by the general public of Belfast and 

 the surrounding districts in the working of that Society. It 

 could not be otherwise when they remembered the valuable 

 scientific information brought before the meetings held there. 



