ANNUAL REPORT. 1907-8. 



The annual meeting of the shareholders of the Society was 

 held on October 2nd, 1908, in the Belfast Museum, College Square 

 North, Sir Otto Jaffe, LL.D., J. P. (President), occupied the chair, 

 and the attendance included the Right Hon. Robert Young, J. P.; 

 the President of Queen's College (Rev. Dr. Hamilton) ; Messrs. 

 George Kidd, J.P.; Seaton F. Miiligan, M.R.I.A., J. P.; G. W. 

 Ferguson, J. P.; W. Swanston, F.G.S.; John Brown, F.R.S.; John 

 Horner, J. H. Davies, Robert Patterson, M.R.I. A.; Nevin H- 

 Foster, W. Armstrong, W. T. Braithwaite, W. H. F. Patterson, 

 E. H. Clarke, R. A. Kyle, A. T. Jackson, W. Faren, John 

 Macormac, M.D.; S. W. Allworthy, M.D.; W. Gray, M.R.I.A.; 

 Joseph Wright, F.G.S.; J. M. Finnegan, B.A., B.Sc; Isaac W. 

 Ward, A. H. Muir, and Robert M. Young (hon. secretary). 



The Hon. Secretary, having read the notice convening the 

 meeting, submitted the report of the Council, which stated : — 



The Winter Session was opened in the Museum on the 

 i2tri November, 1907, when an illustrated lecture was given by 

 Mr. Joseph R. Fisher, B.L.: subject, " Canada in the Twentieth 

 Century." 



The Second Meeting was held on the nth December, when 

 an illustrated lecture was kindly delivered by Mr. R. A. Dawson, 

 A.R.C.A., Head Master, School of Art, Municipal Technical 

 Institute, Belfast ; subject, " Celtic Art : Its Development, Char- 

 acteristics, and Possibilities." 



The Third Meeting took place on the 14th January, 1908, 

 when an illustrated lecture was given by Professor Gregg Wilson, 

 D.Sc, M. R.I. A., on " Primitive Australia." 



The Fourth Meeting took place on the nth February, when 

 Professor W. B. Morton, M.A., lectured on " The Scientific Basis 

 of Music," illustrated by a series of experiments. 



