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CORK NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB. 



April 29. — Annual General Meeting. — Thomas Farrington, M.A., 

 Vice-President, in the chair. The annual reports of the Hon. Secretary, 

 J. Noonan, and the Hon. Treasurer, W. B. Lacy, were submitted. The 

 former stated that a number of excursions arranged for did not take place 

 owing to weather conditions, the railway strike, and other causes. Atten- 

 tion was directed to the Club library, and satisfaction was expressed at 

 the knowledge that one department of the late WiUiam Miller's work in 

 local meteorology — recording the rainfall — would not be allowed to drop, 

 but would in future be carried out at the Technical Institute, where a).' 

 his records are preserved. Both reports were adopted. 



The officers and committee for the next session were elected as follows; — 

 President, Prof. I. Swain ; Vice-Presidents, Prof. M. Hartog, T. Far- 

 rington, W. Humble Johnson, R. A. Phillips, H. Lund ; Hon. Secretary, 

 James Noonan ; Hon. Treasurer, Wm. B. Lacy, Committee — Mrs. 

 Brooke -Hughes, Miss M. E. Bergin, J. Scott-Kerr, R. Blair. 



May I. — Excursion to Goulding's Glen. — A party, numbering 

 about thirty, assembled at St. Luke's Cross at 3 p.m., and walked to" the 

 Glen for the purpose of studying its geology. Prof. I. Swain acted as 

 conductor. 



May 22. — Excursion to Bishopstown. — The weather being un- 

 promising, although a fine evening followed, only a small party travelled 

 by 3 p.m. train from Capwell to Bishopstown Station, from which the 

 members walked to Bishopstown House, the residence of Mr. E. Neville. 

 Bishopstown, or Ballynaspig, was the summer residence of the Bishops 

 of Cork and Ross in the eighteenth century, and many experiments in 

 horticulture, pisciculture, acoustics, &c., were carried out in its grounds. 

 Many interesting remains of the period, including the curiously-paved 

 court-yard, the old chapel, fish-pond (once a favourite haunt of Water- 

 cress gatherers from Cork), and summer-house were pointed out by Mr. 

 Neville. There is a remarkable echo in the grounds, and some fine speci- 

 mens of Holly, Spanish Chestnut, and Walnut were noted. Mr. Neville's 

 extensive and well-kept fruit gardens also attracted a deal of attention. 

 The members walked from Bishopstown to the Munster Institute, a school 

 under the Department of Agriculture, for female students. Here they 

 were received by Misses M. Shcedy, M. Laird, and L. Murphy, who enter- 

 tained them at tea, and afterwards showed them through the various 

 departments of the school. The party then walked back to the city. 



June 12. — Visit to University College. — A party of thirty -five 

 assembled in the Ethnological Museum to hear the fine and varied col- 

 lection described in great detail by Sir Bertram C. A. Windle, F.R.S., 

 President of the College. This was the first visit of the Club to the Museum, 

 and was the principal item in the day's programme. The members then 

 proceeded to the Geological Museum, when a case of specimens illustrative 



