Belfast Iflatural Ibiston? anfc Ipbiloeopbical 

 Society 



ANNUAL REPORT, 1902. 



The Annual Meeting of Shareholders of the Society was held 

 on 3rd July, in the Belfast Museum, College Square North. 

 Mr. John Brown, F.R.S., President, occupied the chair, and 

 amongst those present were — Messrs. R. Lloyd Patterson, D.L.; 

 R Patterson, F.Z.S., M.R.I.A.; John Horner, M.I.M.E.; Joseph 

 Wrigh, F.G.S.; W. Swanston, F.G.S.; S. F. Milligan, M.R.I.A.; 

 W. Gray, M.R.I.A.; R. Dod, J. P.; Conway Scott, C.E.; J. E. 

 Magill, A. Kinnaird, William Faren, Isaac W. Ward, and 

 Davys Bowman. 



The Hon. Secretary (Mr. Robert M. Young, B.A.) read the 

 Annual Report which contained the following : — 



The Winter Session was opened in the Museum on ioth 

 December, 1901, when an address was kindly given by Mr. 

 Francis C. Forth, Assoc. R.C.Sc.L, Principal of the Municipal 

 Technical Institute, Belfast; subject — "The Municipal Technical 

 Institute, its Aims and Aspirations." 



The Second- Meeting was held on 6th January, 1902, when 

 Mr. Joseph Barcroft, M.A., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, 

 gave a lecture on "Respiration," illustrated by experiments. 



On the 4th February the Third Meeting was held, when Mr. 

 John M'Kean contributed li Notes on Local Survivals of 

 Ancient Harvest Customs," with specimens ; and Mr. John 



