128 The Irish Natiiralist, [May, 



Cork Naturai^IvSTvS' Fiei,d Ci.ub. 



March 21. AnnuaTv Meeting. — The annual meeting of the Cork 

 Naturalists' Field Club was held in the Assembly Rooms : Mr. T. 

 Farrington, President, in the chair. 



The Treasurer's report showed that the society began the year with a 

 credit balance of £'] los. gd. The subscriptions for the year amounted to 

 £11 5J., and the expenses, including the usual contribution to the /rzs/i 

 Na/urah'sf, WAS £11 iSs. 6d., leaving a balance to be carried forward of 

 £6 17s. S'L 



The Secretary's report showed a small falling off in membership during 

 the 5''ear. In all nine excursions were held during the season, amongst 

 the places visited being Ivittle Island, Rochestown, Douglas, Youghal, 

 Macroom, Ardrum, Healy's Bridge. During the winter three lectures 

 were arranged for, one of which was delivered by the President on 

 "Some Relations of the Atmosphere to Plants" on Octobei 19th ; another 

 on December 6th on "Some Paths of Science," by Mrs. B Brooke 

 Hughes, and their season would close that evening with a lecture by Mr. 

 Porter on "The Geology of the Bandon Railway." 



The Chairman said there was a prospect of improving on one of last 

 year's excursions this year. When they visited Ardrum last 5'ear they 

 had nobody to show them over the place, and they did not get entrance 

 to Ardrum House. If another visit were organised he was informed 

 they would get on better. 



The meeting then ])roceeded with the election of President and 

 officers for the following year, when the following were appointed: — 

 President, Mr. Farrington ; Vice-Presidents, Miss Martin, Professor 

 Hartog, Messrs. Copeman, Shaw, Bennett, and Lund ; Secretar}-, Mrs. 

 Brooke Hughes; Curator, Mr. R. A. Phillips; Committee, Messrs. D. 

 Franklin, J. Noonan, W. B. Lacy, W. H. Johnson, and F. R. Rohu. 



Some arrangements having been decided on with regard to the forth- 

 coming excursions, the meeting terminated. 



NOTES. 



BOTANY. 



The Dublin Field Club Prize Scheme. 



I hope the prizes offered by the Committee of the Dublin Naturalists' 



Field Club will not result in the diminution of any of our rarer plants. 



In 1S64 the Royal Horticultural Society of England offered prizes for 



the best collections of dried wild flowers collected in that year in any 



part of the United Kingdom, and I well remember the outcry then 



made by botanists who feared that competitors might imagine that the 



rarity of a specimen increased the value of the collection. It ought to 



be made quite clear in the Irish botanical competition of 1900, that 



there is no inducement held out to gather any rare species whose 



numbers are diminishing. 



Rtciiard M. Barrington. 



Fassaroe, Bray. 



