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ANNUAL REPORT, 1890. 



The Annual Meeting of the Shareholders of the Belfast Natural 

 History and Philosophical Society was held on 23rd May, 1890, 

 in the Museum, College Square North. John H. Greenhill, Esq., 

 Mus. Baa, President, occupied the chair, and among those 

 present were — Messrs. John Brown, Hon. Treasurer ; 

 Joseph Wright, William Gray, M.R.I.A. ; William Swanston, 

 F.G.S. ; J. J. Murphy, Thomas Workman, J.P. ; Robert 

 M'Bride, R. Lloyd Praeger, Otto Jaffe, Robert Young, C.E. ; 

 and R. M. Young, B.A., Hon. Secretary ; Dr. J. MacCormac, 

 Dr. Shaw, Rev. L. A. Pooler, and the Rev. Freeman Dudley. 



The Hon. Secretary, having read the notice convening the 

 meeting, submitted the Annual Report of the Council, which 

 was as follows : — 



" The Council of the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical 

 Society, appointed by the Shareholders at the last Annual 

 Meeting on the 13th June, 1889, desire to submit their report 

 of the working of the Society during the past year. The 

 ordinary Winter Session was opened on November 5th, 1889, 

 when an address was read by your President, Mr. J. H. Greenhill, 

 Mus. Baa, on the subject of 'Work,' illustrated by mechanical 

 appliances and experiments. The second meeting was held on 

 3rd December, 1889, when three communications were brought 

 forward — Mr. John Vinycomb gave ' Some Remarks oh Dean 

 Swift's Autograph and Seal of the Deanery of St. Patrick, 

 Dublin ; ' Mr. John Brown supplied ' Notes on the Musical 



