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LIMERICK FIELD CLUB. 



January 9. — Annual Meeting. — The annual Meeting was held at 

 the Club Rooms, Glentworth Street, the Rev. T. F. Abbott, B.D., 

 President of the Club, in the chair. There was a large attendance. 



Dr. George Fogerty then read the annual report, which contained 

 the following :— 



This is our i8th annual meeting, and we now number 118 ordinary 

 members and four honorary members. During the past year sixteen 

 new members have come amongst us. We have still plenty of room for 

 more new-comers, especially for " workers." This lack of workers 

 in the Club has always been put before the members, and your Committee 

 would again appeal to you asking you to remember that the very existence 

 of the Club depends to an enormous extent on those members who will 

 come forward and take up some branch of scientific work. Regarding the 

 finances of the Club your treasurer will tell us that in the year passed 

 we have only just managed to balance our revenue and expenditure. 

 With reference to our meetings during the year there were six lectures 

 given, the average attendance at each being 44. Owing to various causes, 

 principally the bad weather experienced during the summer months, it 

 was found impossible to hold a single summer excursion, a matter which 

 your committee greatly regret. 



The Annual Meeting of last year was held on January 11, Rev. 

 T. F. Abbott in the chair. After the necessary business of the annual 

 meeting had been disposed of, an exhibition of lantern slides was given, 

 the following members handing in contributions : — Mr. Barrington, Mr. 

 Joseph Wallace, Mr. Kennedy, and Mr. A. Fitt. The first evening lecture 

 was held on February ist, when Mr. W. M. Sewell read a paper on the 

 " Age of the Earth." Discussion followed the reading of the paper, Mr. 

 H. V. Morony, Mr. Barrington, and Mr. Bennis taking part. For the 

 second evening meeting held on 17th February, Mr. W. A. Green, of 

 Belfast, lectured on " The People of the Dawn," a study of early 

 inhabitants of the earth, their implements and mode of life. The third 

 evening lecture was given on March 9th by Mr. Nevin H. Foster, President 

 of the Belfast Field Club, who chose for his subject " The Feathered 

 World." The fourth evening, April ist, was occupied by an exhibition 

 of lantern slides kindly lent by the proprietors of PJiotography and Focus. 

 The fifth evening lecture was held on Monday, November 28th, when 

 Mr. J. de W. Hinch gave a resume of the work accomplished at the 

 Conference of the Irish Field Clubs at Rosapenna, at which, owing to the 

 distance, so few of our members were enabled to assist. The sixth and 

 last evening meeting of the Club was held on December 12th, when Fr. 

 O'Leary, S.J., Mungret College, lectured on " Earthquakes." 



Mr. E. Bennis read the financial report, which was approved. 



The following were elected officers of the Club for the year 191 1 : — 

 President, Rev. T. F. Abbott ; Vice-President, Mr. W. M. Sewell ; 

 Secretary, Mr. H. Fogerty ; Treasurer, Mr. E. Bennis ; Committee, Mrs. 

 Dodds, Miss Doyle, Rev. Fr. Kennedy, S.J. ; Dr. Geo. Fogerty, Mr. S. 

 Ebrill, Mr. Benjamin Barrington. 



