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R. Tonson Rye, of Rye Court)— Orderly book of the same corps, 1822- 

 44 (lent by Sir Augustus Warren, Bart , of Warren's Court), and other 

 exhibits. J, P. Dalton — Statue of William III (formerly in the Mansion 

 House, Cork). Allan P. Swan, F.i^.s. — Photographs of Micro-fungi, 

 including salmon disease. The Franciscan Fathers— The chalices of the 

 Franciscan Abbeys of Shandon, Timoleague, Buttevant, and Ardfert. 

 A ciborium of Shandon Abbey. The Dominican Fathers — The chalice 

 of the Dominican Abbey of Youghal. W. B. Haynes — Coat of an Irish 

 Volunteer. J. H. Bennett— Galway rent-roll temp, Elizabeth ; petition of 

 Kin sale fishermen temp. Charles i. Miss Hutchens, Bantry — Local Shells, 

 &c. Cecil Words — Rare Books. Greenwood Pim, M.A., Dublin N.F.C.— 

 I. Facsimile of the Book of Kells ; 2. Illustrations of British Fungi by 

 General Bland. The Munster Camera Club — Frames of photographic 

 transparencies exhibited by Messrs. VV. R. Atkins, J. Bennett, K. Scott, 

 H. Schroter, and C. H. Pearne. 

 At eight o'clock, 



Mr. RoBKRT Day ascended the platform, and formally opened the con- 

 versazione amidst applause. He said by the very merest accident of 

 birth his name had been placed first upon the programme, and that be- 

 cause the society over which he had the honour to preside was a little 

 older than its twin sister, the Field Club (laughter). He took no credit 

 whatever to himself for the happy union of that evening, as he was away 

 from Cork when all the arrangements were made, and when the idea was 

 conceived by Mr. Copeman. On his having informed him of what had 

 been done, his only regret was that the conversazione could not have 

 been continued upon the second day, so that a larger number of the 

 country members of both societies would have been afforded an opportu- 

 nity of seeing the various collections which have been so generously 

 lent to us for the occasion. In Belfast a Field Club had flourished for a 

 quarter of a century. He was a member of it for quite that period, and 

 he alluded to it because it embraced from its inception archaeology and 

 the study of Irish antiquities. What that club had done for the North 

 their dual clubs should do for the South. He feared that the name and 

 claims of the Archaeological Society were not so attractive to the general 

 public as were those of the Naturalists' Field Club. He knew a little of 

 the enjoyment of the naturalist, the pleasure of the botanist, the patient 

 study of the student of geology, and the fascination and delight that 

 centred in the revelations of the microscope. But he could claim for 

 the so-called dry subject of antiquities that the objects embraced by it 

 were quite as varied and equally enjoyable. He trusted that the conver- 

 sazione would be the forerunner of similar yearly gatherings, and that 

 the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society and the Cork Naturalists' 

 Field Club might travel hand-in-hand together for many years to come. 

 He would now make way for one who was a master in the domain of 

 science and natural history, Mr. William H. Shaw, President of the Cork 

 Field Club. 



Mr. W. H. Shaw, b.e;., President of the Cork Naturalists' Field Club, 

 followed in an interesting speech, during the course of which he pointed 

 out that owing to its peculiar position this district possessed a flora and 



