Annual Report and Proceedings of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: WINTER SESSION. SOCIAL MEETING. Thk thirty-first session of the Club was inaugurated on Wednesday evening, ist November, by a social meeting in the Exhibition Hall, Botanic Gardens. Upwards of five hundred members and friends were present. Between seven and eight o'clock tea was partaken of, the teamakers being as follow: -- Miss Andrew, Miss M. K. Andrews, Mrs. St. Clair Boyd, Mrs. Blair, Mrs. Carter, Miss Coulson, Miss Gray, Miss Hamilton, Mrs. Heron, Mrs. Ferguson, Mrs. Lockwood, Mrs. Leslie, Miss Clara Patterson, Miss Praeger, Miss Porter. Miss Phillips, Miss Rea, frs. Stelfox, Mrs. Proctor Smyth, Miss A. H. Tate, Miss S. M. Thompson, Mrs. Vinycomb, Mrs. Walker, and Mrs. Wright. After tea, the chair was taken by the President, who welcomed all present, and referred to the leading features of the programme of exhibits. The principal exhibit, he explained, was a collection of Irish gold ornaments which had been brought together by Mr. Day, of Cork. In addition to the other exhibits, which they would find interesting and instructive, there would be a lantern display of living organisms, photos taken on Club excursions and other places. Prominent amongst the exhibits were the Irish gold ornaments referred to. Of these there was, as stated, a large and valuable collection, shown by Robert Day, J. P., M R. I. A., high sheriff of Cork. There were decorated plaques, lunettes, fibulas, ring money (Scandinavian and Celtic), neck ornaments, bracelets, and amulets, pins, brooches,