4 Annual Meeting. 



thanks to the Press for their admirable reports of the Society's 

 proceedings. 



This meeting will be asked to elect five members of Council 

 in place of the following gentlemen, who retire in accordance 

 with the new constitution, four of whom are eligible for re- 

 election—viz., Mr. Thomas Workman, J.P. ; Mr. Robert M. 

 Young, Professor J. D. Everett, F.R.S. ; and Mr. Lavens M. 

 Ewart, J.P. 



The donations to the Museum, ist May, 1893, till ist May, 

 1894. — From Mr. Herman Hoell, barque Dovre, four king 

 crabs from Florida ; from Mrs, Jenkins, specimen of a rare 

 cuttle fish {Rosia Macrosoma)^ from Helen's Bay ; from Moses 

 Atkinson, the sword of a Lisburn volunteer ; from Mr. J. 

 Beck, Donegore, a spindle whorl found in Donegore Moat ; 

 from Thomas Workman, J.P., a number of shells from Singa- 

 pore ; coleoptera from Madagascar ; and model of an Esquimaux 

 kayak ; from the Misses Watson, Ballybandon, two sepulchral 

 urns, found near Killinchy, filled with human bones ; from W. 

 Swanston, F.G.S., a trooper's flint-lock pistol ; from Mr. J. 

 Liddle, Cookstown, a collection of fossil fish teeth, from rocks 

 near Cookstown ; from Capt. R. Campbell, stuffed specimen of 

 mongoose killing a snake ; from Mr. Donald Cameron, fossil 

 bones from the Pampas, Tandiel ; from Miss S. M. Thompson, 

 fossils and rock specimens from Howth ; also, oil painting 

 portrait, '' A Northern Botanist ; " from Mr. Thomas Carter, a 

 wooden mether filled with bog butter, found in a bog near 

 Portadown ; from Mr. D. M'Clelland, horn of a doe, found in 

 gravel at Orlock ; from Mr. Andrew Peden, a pike, found at 

 Donegore Hill ; also a breastplate worn by Donegore Yeoman 

 Infantry ; from Rev. George Hill, portion of the fringe of an 

 ancient Irish garment ; from Mr. Wallace, Otago, green-stone 

 adze from New Zealand ; from Belfast Water Commissioners, 

 two large specimens of petrified vyood from Stoneyford ; from 

 Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, a volume of specimens of dried 

 plants; from Mr. W. H. Patterson, M.R.I. A., specimens of 

 bones and shells from shell mounds at Rosapenna ; from Mr. 



