2IO The Irish Naturalist. November 



PREPARATIONS AND ARRANGEMENTS. 



A strong desire had been expressed that the Association 

 should visit Dublin in 1907, and in 1906 steps had already been 

 taken for the reception. When the invitation for 190S was 

 accepted, therefore, a strong local committee soon got to work, 

 the chairman being Dr. A. Traill, Provost of Trinity College, 

 and the vice-chairman Very Rev. Dr. W. Delan}^ President 

 of University College. The local honorary treasurers were 

 Justice Dodd, Sir J. Creed Meredith, W. M. Murphy, J. P., and 

 L A. Waldron, M.P. The secretaries were Dr. J. McGrath, 

 J. Mulligan, Prof W. H. Thompson, and Prof W. E. Thrift. 

 On these naturall}^ fell the brunt of the work of preparation. 

 Special sub-committees settled the arrangements for meetings, 

 hospitalit\% and lodgings, excursions and entertainments, 

 finance, and the handbook and other publications The hand- 

 book has already been reviewed in these pages. 



The accommodation for the meetings of the Association was 

 judiciously distributed among the educational and vScientific 

 institutions of the cit3^ Trinit}^ College supplied the reception 

 rooms, the official refreshment rooms, and man}- of the 

 sectional meeting rooms. But Economics was located at the 

 Ro3'al Irish Academy; its sub-section Agriculture at the Ro5'al 

 College of Science, Geography at the Roj^al Dublin Societ}^ 

 Zoology at the Royal College of Surgeons, Anthropology at the 

 Royal College of Physicians, and Education at the Royal 

 University. The large hall of the latter institution ahso served 

 for the Presidential Address, the Evening Discourses, and the 

 General Meetings. The Conference of Delegates from 

 affiliated societies met at University College. 



Facilities were afforded to members who wished to flit from 

 section to section, by means of telephonic communication 

 between the various meeting rooms, enabling a board to be 

 displayed in each section, announcing papers in progress else- 

 where, and b}^ special tramcar and motor services. 



The proximity of the National and other museums rendered 

 any extensive special local collection needless. A good series 

 of photographs illustrating the geology, botany, zoolog}', and 

 antiquities of the district was, howev^er, got together by Prof 

 Cole, Dr. G. H. Pethybridge and H. J. Seymour, and exhibited 

 over the dining hall of Trinity College. 



