Annual Meetim 



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Your Council desire to expiess their hearty thanks to the 

 local Press for their satisfactory reports of the public meetings 

 held. 



Our Curator, Mr. John Sinclair, reports as follows : — 



The collections in the Museum have received a great amount 

 of attention during the past year, much time being occupied in 

 re-labelling and cleaning the specimens. 



The number of visitors to the Museum during the past year 

 show a slight decrease, several of the visitors interested in 

 scientific pursuits, after viewing the Museum, expressed their 

 pleasure at seeing such a valuable collection housed and cared 

 for by the Society. One visitor, Mr. Frederick Watson, M.D., 

 Australian Club, Sydney, marking his approval of what he had 

 seen, and the care bestowed on the collections by generously 

 leaving a donation of one guinea for the Society. 



The Stewart Botanical Collection being put up in loose 

 sheets, has been taken to Dublin, where it is to be mounted, 

 and when returned to Belfast will be more accessible to those 

 wishing to consult it and be of greater botanical value than in 

 its former state. 



The important set of County Down Graptolites have been 

 returned by Prof. Lapworth, F.R.S., who has kindly re-named and 

 classified them, thus making them a standard collection of the 

 Irish species of these ancient fossils. 



The Inter-Basaltic fossil plants have been sent to Dr. C. E. 

 Moss, Botany School, Cambridge, who has very kindly offered to 

 revise and name them. 



Mr. Robert Hart Maze, Belfast, has loaned to the Museum 

 two valuable Chinese Porcelain Vases of the Emperor Kien Lung 

 period (i 736-1 796) with some enamel ware, same period, and 

 other valuable curios brought from China by himself. 



In accordance with the constitution of the Society five 

 members of Council retire from office, of whom, four, are eligible 

 for re-election: — Prof. J. Symington, F.R.S.; Rev. Thomas 

 Hamilton, D.D., LL.D. ; Prof. J. A. Lindsay, M.A. ; Sir Otto 

 Jaffe, J. P.; Robert M. Young, J. P. 



