Hnnual IRepout 



Your Committee beg to submit their forty-second Annual 

 Report, and have again to record increase in the Club's mem- 

 bership. Seventy new members have been elected during the 

 year, of whom 3, not yet having paid entrance fee and first 

 year's subscription, have not been entered on roll, and 25 namet. 

 have been deleted through death, resignation, or other cause. 



During the year your Committee held 10 meetings, at 

 which the average attendance was 11 "3 out of a possible 16. 



The Summer Excursion Programme, arranged at the com- 

 mencement of the Session, was fully carried out, the places 

 visited and dates of excursions being as follows : — 



Hillsborough (Half -day) 



Boyne Valley 



Fair Head 



Sligo (with Irish Field Chib Union) . . 



Roughfort and Templepatrick (Half-day) 



Ballyhornan Bay 



Helen's Tower (Half-day) 



21st May. 



11th June 



1st July. 



12th till 19th July. 



30th July. 



13th August. 



3rd September. 



The attendance at these field meetings was very large, the 

 Hillsborough excursion proving a record in point of numbers — 

 no fewer than 167 members and friends taking part therein. 

 During the session 144 members participated in the excursions, 

 of which number 67 attended only one, 27 attended 2, 26 

 attended 3, 12 attended 4, 6 attended 5, 5 attended 6, while 

 only one member was present at all the excursions. 



In connection with the Summer Programme your Com- 

 mittee have to record their indebtedness to the Dowager 

 Marchioness of Dufferin, the Marquis of Downshire, and 

 Captain Chichester, who granted permission to visit their 

 grounds, and to Mr. and Mrs. Fennell and Mr. and Mrs. 

 Foster for their hospitality on the occasions of the Club's 

 visits to Ballycastle and Hillsborough. 



The Winter Session was opened with a Conversazione in 

 the Exhibition Plall, when upwards of 400 members and 



