26 The Irish Naturalist. [Jan. 



FIELD CLUB NEWS. 



An amusing incident occurred at a recent meeting of the Cork Field 

 Club. A speaker referred to the Cork Cuverian Society, which did 

 much good work in the middle of the century, as being " as extinct as the 

 Irish Elk." Whereupon uprose a member of the said Society, to state that 

 the Cork Cuverian Society was not dead, but hybernating ; he had 

 attended the last meeting which the Society held, some twenty years 

 ago, which was adjourned sine die. He objected to be relegated to the 

 Pleistocene period. As a consequence of the discussion which ensued 

 there is talk of reviving the Cuverian Society, or of amalgamating it with 

 the Cork Field Club. 



Lectures under the Field Club Union Scheme are being energetically 

 carried out. During the past month Mr. W. Gray, a veteran member 

 of the Belfast Club, lectured before the Clubs at Dublin, Cork and 

 Limerick, and in November Mr. Praeger, as representative of the Dublin 

 Club, lectured at Cork and Limerick. 



The Committee of the Dublin Club have nominated Professor Cole, 

 F.G.S., as President for 1896, and Mr. N. Colgan as Vice-President. Mr. 

 Colgan is well-known to Irish botanists by his papers on the flora of 

 County Dublin. 



A party composed chiefly of members of the Belfast and Dublin Field 

 Clubs intend visiting Connemara next spring, with the object of investi- 

 gating the kitchen-middens along the coast. 



The Belfast Club do not intend to let the stimulus given to the study 

 of geology and botany by the recent courses of lectures by Prof. Cole and 

 Prof. Johnson die away for want of encouragement. The geological 

 section is holding frequent meetings, both in the field and in the cosy 

 workroom, and with regard to botany, a series of informal meetings is 

 being held under the direction of Rev. C. H. Waddell, for practical 

 botanical work. 



The Rev. W. V. Johnson, so well known to all Irish naturalists through 

 his work on the G oleoptera and other insects, has removed from Winder- 

 terrace, Armagh, to Acton Rectory, Poyntzpass, Newry. We have no 

 doubt that Mr. Johnson's researches in this new field will largely add to 

 our knowledge of Irish insects. Correspondents will please note the 

 change of address. 



Prof. Johnson, D.Sc, has kindly offered to give a course of practical 

 work to serve as an introduction to the study of sea- weeds, for the benefit 

 of members of the Dublin Club. The course would be held during the 

 spring months. 



