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membership and the financial position np to the en-l of December, 1909 

 Some of the members have gone over to the Archaeological Society and 

 others have joined both societies, but the greater number remain as 

 members of the Field Club alone. The financial statement which the 

 Treasurer read shows a credit balance of £\ 17.T. \\d, A communi- 

 cation was received last year from the editors of the Irish N'atiiralist 

 Journal, which is the organ of the Irish Field Clubs, asking for a sub- 

 scription in aid of the publishing fund, and the Committee decided to 

 grant /,"i, and to endeavour to continue and increase it if funds permitted 

 their doing so. Arrangements having been made early in the year with 

 the Gilchrist Trust for the visit of these lectures to Limerick in Septeni" 

 ber, October, and November, the Secretary decided to have no Field 

 Club lectures during these months so as not to clash in any way with 

 the Gilchrist lectures. 



The Committee were glad to report that some few workers in the 

 field of natural history still remain to the Club, who availed themselves 

 of ever}' opportunity to add to our knowledge and increase the 

 local collections. Heart}' thanks are due to ^Vliss Knowles (National 

 Museum, Dublin), who has ever taken a keen interest in the flora of the 

 district, and who has been willing to assist on all occasions those of the 

 members who sought her aid, and to Mr. R. A. Phillips, whose critical 

 botanical and conchological knowledge is much appreciated by tho.se 

 who have had the pleasure of his company on many a natural history 

 ramble both in Limerick and Clare. The Committee desire to bestow 

 on them the only gift in their power to convey, and that is that they 

 be made honorary members of our Club. 



The Photographic Section, which has been for some time eclipsed by 

 the Archceological, is showing signs of renewed activity. 



The Committee regret having to notice the death of a valued member, 

 Captain O'Brien, of Cratloe Woods, whose wooded hills and dales were 

 open at all times to the naturalists. Nothing gave him greater pleasure 

 than to hear that something new had been found in Cratloe Wood. 



The Club has also to mourn the loss to botanical science of Miss 

 Charlotte O'Brien. Her home at Foynes was the meeting place of 

 naturalists working in her district, and in a recent visit of the Club to 

 Foynes it was hospitably entertained at Ardenoir. 



Winter Meetings. — The i6tli Annual Meeting was held on T5tli 

 December, Rev. T. V. Abbott, B.D., in the chair. 



The 2nd evening meeting was held on February nth, when Father 

 Gill, S.J.. delivered a lecture on " ^Metamorphoses in Insects." 



The 3rd evening meeting was held on the nth ^larch, Mr. Bruce 

 Murray giving a delightful lecture on the "Hot vSprings of Ateoroa,'' 

 being an account of a pensonal visit to the North Island of New 

 Zealand. 



The 4th evening meeting was held on the 23rd March, when Mr. 

 Isaac Swain, B.A., Field Club Union Lecturer, lectured on "Some 

 Geological Rambles in the County Dublin." 



