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except for a slight decrease in membership, the year had been most 

 satisfactor}-. The Report referred to the recent visit of the British 

 Association, and in particular to the success of the photographic surve}' 

 of the district, which was undertaken by certain members of the CUib, 

 and which was exhibited at the Association meeting in September. 

 The Honorary Treasurer's Report was read, and both Reports were 

 adopted. The Chairman then read the names of the officers and com- 

 mittee for 1909, which were as follows : — 



President— Geo. H. Pethybridge, Ph.D., B.Sc. Vice-President — 

 Miss M. C. Knowles. Hon. Treasurer — H. K. Gore Cuthbert. Hon. 

 Secretaries — ^J. Bayley Butler, M.A.; Stafford Johnson. Committee — C. F. 

 Ball, W. B. Bruce, Prof. G. H. Carpenter, B.Sc ; Miss F. Elmes, B.A. ; Miss 

 Garner, W. F. Guun, J. de W. Hinch, Miss M'Intosh, B.A. ; C. B. Moffat, 

 B.A. ; A. R. Nichols, M.A., M.R.I.A. ; R. \^. Praeger, B.A, B.R.; 

 Rowland Southern, B.Sc. 



A special vote of thanks was passed to the outgoing Secretary, J. deW. 

 Hinch, for his valuable services to the Club during his six years of 

 office. Votes of thanks were also passed to the outgoing Officers, 

 the Royal Irish Academy and the Dublin Press. Messrs. Sherrard, 

 MacSwene}', O'Hanlon and Pollock were elected Associate Members. 

 Two candidates were proposed for membership. The President then 

 delivered his Inaugural Address, illustrated by lantern slides "On the 

 North Bull and its Proposed Natural History Survey." He proposed to 

 form a Committee to carry out this work, which would be of great 

 scientific importance. R. Lloyd Praeger, J. N. Halbert, D. McArdle and 

 A. Williams spoke in support of this proposal, which was adopted. 



February 6.— Geoi^ogicai. Excursion to the Dodder Vai,i,ey 

 AND GlenasmoIvE. a few members and visitors took part in this 

 excursion, during which the Conductor, C. Murray, B.A., gave a series 

 of demonstrations of the geological processes at work in nature, showing 

 how, by the action of water and atmospheric conditions, the various 

 geological changes were brought about. The members returned by the 

 5.20 steam tram. 



February 9. — The third Business Meeting was held in the Royal 

 Irish Academy House. In the absence of the President, C. B. Moffat, 

 M.A. (Ex-President) took the Chair. H. W. Dunlop raised a question 

 regarding the discontinuance of the tea at the evening Meetings, which 

 was referred to the Committee for further consideration. R. Byrne and 

 W. W. Smith were elected and one candidate was proposed for member- 

 ship. The Chairman then referred, in feeling terms, to the great loss to 

 botanical science entailed by the death of Miss More. J. Adams, M.A., 

 read his paper " On the possibility of distinguishing between native and 

 introduced species of plants in Ireland " ; a discussion followed, in which 

 R. Lloyd Praeger, C. B. Moffat, W. F. Gunn and H. W. Dunlop took part. 



