Belfast Naturalists' Field Club

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Insignia of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club

The Belfast Naturalists' Field Club is a club of

Archeology & History, Botany, Geology and Zoology, and has published several books and a periodical. The Herbarium of the BNFC is now in the Ulster Museum.[3]

History

The club was formed as the first of a series of Field Clubs (followed by clubs in Dublin (1886), Cork (1892), and Limerick (1892)) established in response to the increasing interest in natural sciences in the Victorian Society of Ireland.[1] Ralph Tate visited Belfast to give a series of lectures on botany which stimulated Samuel Alexander Stewart to gather a group of field botanists.[4] The first public meeting was held on the March 6, 1863 in the Museum Buildings, now the Ulster Museum. Tate wrote a draft Constitution.[5] The first field trip organized by the Club occurred on 6 April 1863 when 88 members travelled to Islandmagee to collect fossils. Since then members of the Club have visited many areas including the Cavehill, the Giant's Causeway, Mount Stewart and Strangford Lough to name but a few.[6]

Books

  • Systematic Lists Illustrative of the Flora, Fauna, Palaeontology and Archeology of the North of Ireland, 1870
  • Guide to Belfast and the adjacent counties, 1874
  • Catalogue of a Collection of Irish Antiquities, 1874
  • A Guide to Belfast and the Counties of Down & Antrim, 1902
  • A Preliminary Report on the Survey of the County Armagh Flora, 1965-1967, 1968
  • Urban Flora of Belfast: A project of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club. 1997, by Stan Beesley, John Wilde.[7]

Periodicals

Notable members

References

  1. ^ a b P.W. Jackson (1992) The Irish Naturalist: 33 years of natural history in Ireland 1892-1924. Irish Naturalists' Journal 24(3): 95-101
  2. ^ E.E. Evans (1970) The Personality of Ulster. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, No. 51, pp. 1-20.
  3. ISBN 0-85389-446-9
  4. ISBN 0853894469
    .
  5. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.70133
    . Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  6. ISBN 0-903152-17-7
  7. ISBN 0-85389-695-X
    .
  8. ^ Serial Publications in the British Museum (Natural History) Library. British Museum, 1980 - Library Search
  9. ^ a b "General Committee". Annual Reports and Proceedings. Belfast Naturalists' Field Club: 3 & 39. 1919.
  10. ^ Clements, Paul (2016). "Richard Hayward: Lover of Ulster and Ireland". Lecale Review (14).
  11. ^ Belfast Naturalists' Field Club (1913–1914). "Report of the Fiftieth Anniversary Subcommittee". Proceedings of the Belfast Naturalists Field Club. Robarts - University of Toronto. Belfast.
  12. ^ a b "Annual Report". Annual Reports and Proceedings. Belfast Naturalists' Field Club: 484. 1912.

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