62 The Irish Naturalist March, 



R. LI. Praeger drew attention to an interesting fact observed during the 

 examination of the above-mentioned earns on Carrowkecl Mountain. The 

 growth of the peat up the sides of one earn, and its absence beneath the 

 earns, indicate that the peat is of more recent growth than the age of the 

 earns (about 3,000 years). 



January 9, 19 12. — Annual General Meeting. — W. F. Gunn in the 

 chair. The Hon, Secretary (R. Southern) read the Annual Report of the 

 Committee for 191 1, after which the Hon. Treasurer (H. G. Cuthbet) 

 presented his Annual Report and Balance Sheet. These reports showed 

 that the Club had had a successful year. The meetings had been well 

 attended, and the finances of the Club were in a more satisfactory condition 

 than they were last year. On the motion of R. LI. Praeger, seconded by W. 

 B. Moffat, the Reports were adopted. The Officers and Committee of the 

 club for 1 91 2 were then elected, as follows: — President, W. F. Gunn; 

 Vice.-President, N. Colgan ; Hon. Treasurer, H. Gore Cuthbert ; Hon. 

 Secretaries, R Southern and T. Hallissy. To fill vacancies on the Com- 

 mittee : D. L. Murphy, G. O. Sherrard, and W. B. Wright, 



W. B. Wright, B,A., F.G.S, then gave a lecture on " Some Recent 

 Additions to our Knowledge of the Geological History of Man " The 

 lecturer gave a brief account of the latest classification of Palaeolithic 

 deposits, and pointed out how recent discoveries have led to the important 

 conclusion that Europe was occupied by no less than three distinct races 

 of man, in the Palaeolithic period. Casts of the skulls of these men, kindly 

 lent by Dr, Scharff of the Irish National Museum, were exhibited and com- 

 pared with those of the nearest living races and with Dubois' Pithecan- 

 thropus erectus from Java, Certain discoveries of Osmund Fisher and 

 Clement Reid, which prove the presence of man in Great Britain in pre- 

 glacial times, were then described, and the lecture, which was illustrated 

 with lantern slides, concluded with an account of the recent discovery 

 of implements in the Pliocene Crag of Norfolk. At the conclusion of the 

 lecture, W. F, Gunn exhibited seeds of Erodium grtnmim, and demonstrated 

 the action of the hygroscopic attachment in helping to bury the seeds. 



Dr, G, B, Crawford and Victor E, Stephens were elected members of the 

 club. 



ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC BIOLOGISTS. 



The yearly gathering of this Society has been arranged for Thursday 

 and Friday, March 28th and 29th, at the Royal College of Science, Dublin, 

 (by permission of the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruc- 

 tion,) under the Presidency of Professor G. H, Carpenter. The presence 

 and support of Irish biologists is invited. Dr. G. H. Pethybridge is 

 acting as local Secretary. 



