Belfast Natural 1bi6tor^ anD pbilosopbical 

 Society. 



ANNUAL REPORT, 1892. 



The Annual Meeting was held in the Museum, College Square 

 North, on 21st July, 1893. The attendance included Professor 

 Fitzgerald, B.A. (president) ; Rev. J. Kinghan, Dr. J. A. 

 Lindsay, Dr. MacCormac ; Messrs. R. M. Young, B.A. (hon. 

 secretary) ; Lavens M. Ewart, J.P. ; R. Young, C.E., J.P. r 

 W. H. Patterson, M.R.I. A. ; John Brown, (hon. treasurer), 

 John Ward, J.P., F.S.A. ; R. L. Patterson, J.P., F.L.S. ; R. 

 Patterson, J. A. Davis, J. E. Magill, J. H. Greenhill, Mus.Bac. ; 

 and John Brett, county surveyor for Antrim. 



The President having taken the chair. 



The Hon. Secretary read the notice calling the meeting. 

 He then submitted the annual report, which contained the 

 following : — '* The ordinary winter session was opened on ist 

 November, 1892, when Mr. John H. Greenhill, Mus.Bac, read 

 a paper entitled ' The subject of Electric Lighting,' illustrated 

 by experiments, &c., after which a discussion took place. The 

 second meeting was held on 6th December, 1892, when Mr. A. 

 Tate, M.I.C.E., read his report as the Society's delegate to the 

 British Association. Mr. R. LI. Praeger, B.A., M.R LA., 

 described ' Botanical Rambles in County Armagh,' illustiated 

 by specimens ; and Mr. R. M. Young, gave brief ' Antiquarian 

 Notes on Bushfoot and Ballymagarry,' illustrated with lantern 

 slides by Mr. W. Swanston. The third meeting was held on 3rd 

 January, 1893, when Mr. Wm. Gray, C.E., M.R.I. A., read a 

 paper on 'Traces of Primitive Man in North of Ireland, 

 fully illustrated with limelight slides and objects of antiquarian 



