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Owing to the outbreak of war, the Excursion arranged for 

 5th September to Rostrevor was abandoned. 



The average attendance of members at these excursions was 

 38, and, as will be seen from the detailed reports published in the 

 Proceedings, much good work was accomplished. 



The Winter Session was opened by a Conversazione, which 

 was held in the Carlton Hall, kindly granted by Mr. F. W. Henry. 

 During the Session the following Papers (of which abstracts will 

 be found in the Proceedings) were read : — 



1914. 



17th November — Presidential Address— " Problems of dispersal and distribu- 

 tion in the Irish Flora," R. Lloyd Praeger, B.A., B.E., 

 M.R.I.A. 



15th December—" Social Archaeology," F. J. Bigger, M.R.I. A. 



I9I5- 

 19th January — " Palceontological Evidence of Evolution," J. K. Charlesworth, 



M.Sc, Ph.D. 

 16th February—" Recent Advances in Glacial Geology," W. B. Wright, B.A., 



F.G.S., Delegate from the Irish Field Club Onion. 

 23rd March — " Mycetozoa," Miss M. W. Rea. 



"Notes on the Sedums," R. LI. Praeger, B.A., B.E., M.R.I. A. 

 "Plants of the Lough Neagh Basin," W. J. C. Tomlinson. 



During the year the Club has sustained a serious loss in the 

 death of Miss M. K. Andrews, whose work in recording the 

 occurrence of Erratics in the district is monumental. With great 

 regret, owing to failing health, was Mr. George Donaldson's resig- 

 nation of his many services in carrying out the Club's work, 

 accepted by the Committee in October. 



A copy of last year's Proceedings was sent to each Delegate 

 who had attended the 50th Anniversary Meeting in May, 19 13. 

 In acknowledging these our friends all testify to the good work 

 accomplished by the Club in the past fifty years and wish it 

 continued prosperity. 



Your Committee have still been unable to find any member 

 who will undertake the duties of Secretary, and although the 

 Sectional Secretaries managed to keep the Club active during the 



