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L. Glascott, A. C. Haddon, T. Johnson, W. F. Johnson, W. F, 

 <ie V. Kane, J. J. F. X. King, David M'Ardle, E. J. M'Weeney, 

 A. G. More, A. R. Nichols, Greenwood Pirn, R. 1,1. Praeger, 

 R. F. Scharff, R. J. Ussher, and C. H. WaddelL 



These reports amply demonstrated the need of systematic 

 work at many groups in Ireland, and accordingly^ we find the 

 Committee applying for and obtaining from the Academy in 

 May, 1893, a grant of ;^50 to enable it to establish collecting 

 stations. Since 1893, an annual grant, varying in amount from 

 £2>5 to £%o, has been made by the Academy to the Committee 

 for the continuance of its investigations. In many cases the 

 Committee has made grants to independent students applying 

 to them, or to the Academy, always with the proviso that 

 the scientific results, and an account of the expenditure, 

 should be placed in their hands ; but equally frequently the 

 investigations for which grants were required have been under- 

 taken at the Committee's request, on the same conditions. 

 The Committee has thus directed the work and the expendi- 

 ture on behalf of the Academy, and has been able to use to 

 the best advantage the small sum available for natural 

 history research. It remains to consider what scientific results 

 have been obtained under its administration. 



As to the personnel of the Committee, it is an annually 

 appointed bod}^, and the membership has varied from year to 

 year, the aim being that all branches of zoology and botany 

 should be represented, and that the Committee should be 

 composed of working naturalists. Commencing with the list 

 of names already quoted, the Committee has at various times 

 included in addition G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton, ■**" N. Colgan,* 

 J. K. Duerden, H. L- Jameson, D. M'Ardle,* F. W. Moore,* 

 A. R- Nichols,^ Robert Patterson,* R. J. Ussher, and Professor 

 •Gregg Wilson.* The Committee as at present constituted 

 •consists of those members whoa^e names are marked with an 

 asterisk in" this list, and in the list on the previous page. 



The first idea of the Committee as to prosecuting researches 

 in the Irish fauna and flora was to select collecting stations, 

 to which a party would proceed to make collections in as 

 many different groups as possible. Accordingly we find that 

 as soon as the first grant for carrying out investigations was 

 received (May, 1893), a party composed of Carpenter, Duerden 



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