Belfaet Natural 1bi0tor\? anb ipbiloeopbical 

 Society. 



ANNUAL REPORT, 1894. 



The Annual Meeting of the Shareholders was held in the 

 Museum, College Square North, on 25th July, "to receive the 

 Council's report for the past twelve months, along with the 

 Treasurer's Statement of Accounts ; to elect five members to 

 the Council of Management for 1895-96, in the place of five who 

 retire and are eligible for re-election ; and to transact such 

 other business as may be brought forward pertaining to an 

 annual meeting." Mr. R. Lloyd Patterson, J.P., F.L.S., 

 presided, and the attendance included Messrs. W. H. Patterson, 

 Isaac Ward, Robert M. Young, B.A., Secretary ; George Kidd, 

 J.P. ; J. H. Greenhill, James O'Neill, M.A. ; R. A. Kyle, E. 

 Forbes Patterson, T. F. Shillington, and Drs. John MacCormac 

 and Calwell. 



The Hon. Secretary (Mr. R. M. Young) read the notice 

 convening the meeting, and submitted the annual report 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 in the Museum, College Square, on 13th 

 November, 1894, when the President of the Society (Mr. Robert 

 Lloyd Patterson, F.L.S.) delivered an inaugural address. The 

 second meeting was held on 27th November, 1894, when a 

 lecture was kindly dehvered by Rev. W. S. Greene, M.A., Her 

 Majesty's inspector of fisheries — subject, ' Sea Fish and Fishing 

 off the West of Ireland,' illustrated by a specially prepared 

 series of lantern slides. The third meeting was held on 4th 



