1898] Proceedmgs of Irish Societies. 59 



dark room, properly lighting the board-room for Club meetings, and 

 making its walls suitable for displaying diagrams, &c., all of which 

 seems money well spent and calculated to prove of great benefit. 

 Printing and posting separate notices of each meeting to all members 

 has been discontinued, and will result in a great saving under these 

 heads. Arrangements have been made by which the Club has taken 

 over the full control of this board-room from the Trustees of the 

 Savings Bank, so far as the right to occupy and sublet it is concerned, a 

 plan which your Committee believe likely to prove of advantage to the 

 Club financially. 



"The following meetings and excursions have taken place during the 

 past year : — 



MEETINGS. 



January 14 — Annual meeting. 



February 23—'* Bogs and Bog-Bursts, with special reference to the 

 recent Kerry Disaster." By R. Lloyd Praeger, Esq., M.R.I.A., &c., 

 Vice-President Dublin Field Club. 



March 31— A general conference on the work of the three sections 

 represented in the Club— Natural Science, Photography, and Arch- 

 aeology. 



April 27—" Limerick During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth." By Mr- 

 J. Grene Barry, J. P. 



November 2 — "York and its Minster." By Rev. W. E. Bentley, M.A. 



November 16—" Lantern-slide Making." Contributed by The Amateur 

 Photographer, 



December 8—" Mosses and Liverworts." By Rev. C. H. Waddell, B.D., 

 Vice-President Belfast Field Club. 



December 14— "Eugene O'Curry," by Rev. T. Lee, A.M. " Adare and 

 its Ancient Monastic Buildings," by Mr. G. J. Hewson, M.A. " Notes on 

 Ara," by Rev. J. F. Lynch, M.A. 



EXCURSIONS. 



May 20 — Askeaton. 

 June 17— Finlough. 

 July 22 — Broadford. 

 September 3— Lough Gur. 



„ 22 — Finlough (by invitation). 



" Meetings and excursions have been well attended and successful. 



" Your Committee recommend an alteration in Rule 3, so as to provide 

 for seven ordinary members on the Committee, and that the rules be 

 harmonised with the enlarged object of the Club." 



Mr. Beauchamp, in moving the adoption of the report, said he could 

 not refrain from referring to the great progress the Club had made, 

 their numbers having increased to 240. He was sorry that they were at 

 the wrong side of the financial account, but he trusted they soon would 

 have a balance to their credit (hear, hear). The officers deserved a 

 great deal of praise for all they had done, and especially in promoting 

 the Photographic Section. 



