58 The Irish Naturalist. [February, 



significance of this is apparent, when it is remembered that in previous 

 years not more than six meetings have been held, and that two of these 

 were, as in the current session, allotted by invitation to visitors from 

 sister societies, with which the Club is affiliated in Dublin, Belfast, or 

 Cork. 



"It is with pleasure that your Committee report the formation by 

 some half dozen members of a Club harbarium during the past year, and 

 that it has attained to 500 or more sheets up to the present, these con- 

 taining all, or nearly all, the flowering plants of the neighbourhood, 

 including more than twenty not hitherto recorded from this division of 

 the country. The continuation of this work is desirable, and should be 

 supported by the Club and its members in every possible way. 



*' The capture of a fine specimen of the Royal Sturgeon {Acipenser 

 Sturid) was made on the 8th of July last by fishermen, near the mouth 

 of the Maigue river, its length being about 10 feet, and its estimated 

 weight between four and five cwt. 



" The chief item of entomological interest during the year has been 

 the occurrence of the Brimstone Butterfly {Gonepteryx 7-hamni) at Broad- 

 ford, Co. Clare, where a specimen was observed on May 29th. It is also 

 reported as occurring regularly every spring-time at Wood Park, near 

 ScarifF. The sole food-plant of its larvae, the Common Buckthorn 

 (^Rhamnus cathafticus) has not yet been found in this district, except on 

 Holy Island, in Lough Derg. 



"It is also worth recording that on June 23rd, an Orthopteron {Tettix 

 subulatiis), an insect of the grasshopper family, was taken at Mount- 

 shannon, swimming freely in water, this being the second occasion 

 upon which one of these creatures has been so captured by one of our 

 members. The fact of any individual of the group entering water and 

 seeming to be at home in it, not having been noticed elsewhere, or if 

 noticed not recorded, is deserving of mention and of fuller investigation. 



" Much good work has been done by the Photographic Section of the 

 Club, as is shown this evening, its requirements being catered for this 

 session at four educational meetings, for the lectures and illustrations 

 at which the Club is under deep obligation to 7'he Amateur Photographer 

 and its proprietors. 



" The opening of an Archaeological Section last year has added greatly 

 to the general interest taken in the Club, and its studies have been a 

 decidedly attractive element in connection with several of last season's 

 excursions. Archaeology occupies three evenings in the current session, 

 and has during the year had the first number of the Club Journal 

 devoted to its interests. This publication, under the able editorship of 

 Mr. J. Grene Barry, J. P., the Hon. Secretary of the Section, has been 

 very well received. The year has been one of heavy outlay, and the 

 balance has disappeared from the credit side of the account, but it is 

 hoped not permanently. Besides issuing the Journal free to all members 

 at date of publication, your Committee spent a considerable sum on 

 each of the following, viz. : — last Annual Meeting, organizing the 

 Archaeological Section, constructing and furnishing- a photographic 



