4 Annual Meeting. 



President of the Society, author of the ' Natural History of 

 Ireland.' This valuable work of art was bequeathed by his 

 sister, the late Miss Jane Thompson. The other is an excellent 

 likeness of the late Robert Patterson, F.R.S., author of 'Zoology 

 for Schools ' and several other works, one of the founders of the 

 Society, and for various and lengthened periods its president. 

 This was presented by his son, our present President. To these 

 have since been added a portrait in oil of the late Robert S. 

 MacAdam, presented by his cousin. Miss Anna MacAdam, 

 together with a selection of his books. Amongst the miscel- 

 laneous objects recently acquired may be mentioned the perfectly 

 preserved head of a soldier killed in 1798. It was found in a 

 peat bog near Dungannon. The Council desire, on behalf of 

 the Society, to thank the local press for their admirable reports 

 of our public meetings. This meeting will be asked to elect five 

 members of Council in place of the gentlemen who retire in 

 accordance with the new constitution, and who are eligible 

 for re-election." 



Mr. Brown (Treasurer) submitted the annual financial state- 

 ment, which showed that there is a balance on hands of £i\. 



The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the report, referred 

 to its leading features, and said he knew there were some gentle- 

 men there that day at some inconvenience. He would therefore 

 not detain them more than was absolutely necessary. The 

 meeting was held later than usual owing to circumstances more 

 or less unavoidable. It would be their endeavour to hold their 

 annual meeting nearer to the working session. He did not 

 recollect any occasion on which they met so late as the last week 

 in July. He begged to move the adoption of the report. 



Mr. Shillington, in seconding the motion, referred to the 

 satisfactory nature of the report. He thought the Society was 

 to be congratulated on two or three things, especially on the 

 bringing of the Gilchrist lecturers to Belfast during the year, 

 and he hoped now, that that movement had been inaugurated, 

 they would be the means of bringing popular lecturers to Belfast. 

 He did not think they had any reason to be disheartened at the 



