brief account was given of the work and results of the Clare 

 Island Survey, the latest and largest scheme in which the Field 

 Clubs have played a leading part; and the success of the botanists 

 of the Belfast Club in recent years in restoring to our flora most 

 of the plants which had been posted as missing for many years, 

 was referred to. The speaker concluded by congratulating the 

 members on preserving unimpaired the Field Club spirit of 

 mutual helpfulness, efficiency in executive, simplicity, and 

 democracy, which had been with it from the beginning. 



Mr. Adam Speers thanked Mr. Praeger for his address, Mr. 

 Robert May spoke of the work done by the Club in the domain 

 of Archaeology, and Mr. George Donaldson — an original member 

 — referred to the foundation of the Club and to its work in its 

 earlier years, and Mr. Praeger briefly replied to questions asked 

 by these speakers. The following were proposed, seconded, and 

 elected members — Rev. Samuel Hawthorne, B.A., and Miss 

 Hawthorne (seniors), and the Misses M. Leathern, Phoebe Brown, 

 and Jeanette Glasgow (juniors). 



" SOME EXPERIENCES AT AN IRISH WHALING STATION. 



The second meeting of the Winter session was held in the 

 Museum, College Square North, on 15th December. In the 

 absence of the President and Vice-President the chair was 

 occupied by Mr. Nevin H. Foster, Past-President. The Chairman 

 said Mr. Praeger had desired him to apologise for his unavoidable 

 absence. When he (the chairman) had mentioned the subject 

 announced for the lecture he found that few people seemed to be 

 aware of the existence of a whaling station in Ireland. Where it 

 was he would not say, but ask Mr. J. E. Hamilton, M.Sc, F.Z.S., 

 to give them the information in his lecture entitled "Some 

 Experiences at an Irish Whaling Station." 



Mr. Hamilton said the Irish Whaling Station, at which he had 

 spent some 23 weeks working on behalf of the British Association 

 Committee on Whaling, was situated on Blacksod Bay, in the 

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