BELFAST 



NATURAL HISTORY 

 AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



SESSION 1908-9. 



10 th November, igo8. 



Sir Otto Jaffe, LL.D., in the Chair. 



THE FOLKLORE OF THE ULSTER CHILD." 

 By the President, Sir John W. Byers, MA., M.D. 



Abstract. 



The Chairman said he was very sorry there was no chain of 

 office associated with the position of president of that Society, for 

 nothing would have given him greater pleasure than on that 

 occasion to hand the chain to their worthy citizen Sir 

 John Byers. He did not believe that the Council could 

 have nominated a more popular name than that of Sir John 

 Byers. It would be quite out of place for him to say even a word 

 or two about Sir John, for there was hardly anyone better known 

 than himself and his worthy mother. Since that was a literary and 

 scientific society, he was quite certain Dr. Margaret Byers had as 

 much claim to be mentioned there as any other lady in Belfast. 

 With those few remarks he had very much pleasure in figur- 

 atively handing the President's chain of office to Sir John 

 Byers. 



The President, who was cordially received, then proceeded 

 with his address, in the course of which he said his first duty was 

 to thank the Council of the Society for electing him as president 



