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overflowing audience. Your Council considered that it would 

 be unwise, in view of the Gilchrist lectures, to hold the usual 

 series of popular scientific lectures, but trust that they may be 

 resumed next session. 



It will be observed from the balance sheet of the Society, 

 which has been drawn up by the Hon. Treasurer in accordance 

 with the requirements of the Local Government Board and duly 

 audited by the official auditor, that the financial condition of 

 the Society and Museum continues fairly satisfactory. The 

 additional rooms acquired by the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club 

 have been fitted up, and are now in their occupation. The 

 large lecture hall was rented for a series of lectures by the 

 Belfast Society for Extension of University Teaching, and, as in 

 former years, the rooms in the Museum have been used for the 

 holding of a number of meetings of local scientific societies. 

 Since the last annual meeting your Society has to deplore the 

 loss of one of their oldest and most valued members, the late 

 Robert S. MacAdam, best known as the former editor of the 

 Ulster Journal of Archceology. As already mentioned, a vote 

 of condolence was passed to his relatives at the first meeting 

 after his decease, and was duly and appreciatively acknowledged 

 by them. The Museum was opened on Easter Monday and 

 Tuesday at the usual nominal charge, and large numbers of the 

 public availed themselves of the privilege, though, owing to 

 counter attractions, particularly the Exhibition, the visitors to 

 the Museum were scarcely up to the average. The Curator 

 continues to discharge his duties to the full satisfaction of your 

 Council, and, his former assistant having resigned, John Sinclair 

 has been appointed as his successor. A list of donations to the 

 Museum, and of publications received in exchange from home 

 and foreign societies, will be printed with the present report. 

 Among the recent additions to the Museum are two oil portraits 

 which are specially noteworthy. They were presented to the 

 Society at the first meeting of the winter session, and were 

 described in the President's inaugural address. One is a half- 

 length portrait of the late William Thompson, for many years 



