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Much useful work has been carried on in connection with the 

 Excursions. Your Committee has still to regret, however, that more 

 members, with leisure, <\o not take a more active part in the prosecution 

 of some special branch of natural history. The interchange of lecturers 

 between the Irish Clubs has been continued. Your Committee pro- 

 poses to act, during the year 1900, on their powers under Rule XIII., 

 viz. : — to offer prizes for competition for collections of scientific objects 

 of the district, &c. 



The proceedings at both the Summer and Winter meetings of the Club 

 continue to be reported in the pages of the Irish Naturalist. The 

 Committee would again urge on members the necessity- of supporting 

 this Irish Natural History magazine, by subscribing to it regularly. 

 The Committee recommends that the grant to the Editors to defray cost 

 of publication during the year 1899 be ;^I5. The best thanks of the 

 Committee are due, and are hereby tendered, to the Council of the 

 Royal Irish Academy for again granting to the Club the privilege of 

 meeting in their house during the year. 



The Treasurer's report was not before the meeting in consequence of 

 the illness of the Treasurer, Mr. H. Gore Cuthbert. 



Mr. PiM then brought forward a communication on " Notes on the 

 Application of Photography to Natural Histor}-." The communication 

 was highly interesting and instructive, being profusely illustrated with 

 lantern slides, many of which were beautifully coloured by Mr. Pim. 

 Dr. C. J. Patten and Mr. Seymour spoke on the subject, and con- 

 gratulated the President on his paper. 



Messrs. J. A. Valentine, W. J. De C. Wheeler, and R. J. Fleming were 

 elected members of the Club, and two candidates nominated. 



February 20.- The President (Mr. Greenwood Pim, M.A.) in the 

 chair. Thirty-five members and visitors were present. After the signing of 

 the minutes of the last meeting the report of the Treasurer for 1899 was 

 adopted on the motion of Mr. H. J. Seymour, seconded by Mr. W. de V. 



Kane. 



Dr. N. H. AiyCOCK (Hon, Sec.) announced that the Committee offers 

 prizes of ;!^i each for the best collections in any of the following groups 

 made during the present year : — 



Flowering Plants. Mosses and Hepaticse. Lichens. Algae. Fishes. 

 Land and Freshwater Molluscs. Crustacea. Coleoptera. Hymenoptera 

 or Diptera. Marine Worms. Pleistocene Fossils. Igneous Rocks. 



The following Special Prizes are also offered by ])rivate members: — 



The President, Mr. Greenwood Pim, offers a prize of £1 for the best 

 set of four lantern slides illustrative of any department of natural his- 

 tory (including photomicrographs). Mr, R. Li^oyd Praeger offers a 

 special prize of ;^i for the best list of records of flowering plants from 

 any part of Ireland, additional to those already collected for the purposes 

 of an Irish " Topographical Botany." Mr. H. J. Seymour offers a prize 

 of the value of toi. for the best collection of microscopical minerals 

 obtained from sea-sands, river-gravels, or decomposed rocks in Ireland, 

 with a view to encourage the study of Irish mineralogy. Conditions and 

 particulars may be obtained from the Secretaries of the Club. 



