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25th March, 1920. 



Professor Gregg Wilson, President of the Society, in the Chair. 



A NATURALIST'S WANDERINGS IN NYASALAND. 



By Professor Robert Newstead, F.R.S. 



Under the auspices of the Society a most interesting lecture 

 entitled " A Naturalist's Wanderings in Nyasaland" was delivered 

 in the Wellington Hall, Y.M.C.A., by Professor Robert NoAvstead, 

 F.R.S., the distinguished author and lecturer. 



The Chairman said they were exceptionally favoured in 

 having such a distinguished man of science to talk to them as 

 Professor Newstead. He was distinguished as a great worker and 

 a great writer on zoological subjects. His monumental work on 

 the Coccidse was the standard book on the subject, but he had 

 published scores of other books less in size, but many of them 

 not leas in competence. Then he was distinguished as a traveller 

 in Jamaica and Nyasaland, and everywhere his work had been 

 brilliant. As a public servant he had done great work of a 

 scientific nature at the front. ( Applause. ) He was largely 

 responsible for modern methods of combating one of their great- 

 est enemies in peace and war — the fly. It was part of his duty 

 during the war to attack the fly and solve many problems of 

 sanitation. Lastly, he took an enthusiastic interest in archaeology. 



Professor Newstead said it had been long his desire to come 

 to Belfast to meet the members of that old society, whose cen- 

 tenary was to be celebrated soon. Proceeding with his lecture 

 which was illustrated by unique and interesting lantern slides 

 made from the lecturer 's own photographs. Professor Newstead 

 referred to Nyasaland as the country iii which Dr. Livingstone 



