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May 15. — Annual General Meeting. — Mr. T. Farrington, M.A., 
Vice-President, in the Chair. J. Noonan, Hon. Secretary, submitted his 
report for the session. It included reports of the excursions carried out 
which have already appeared in the Irish Naturalist. Regret was ex- 
pressed at the death of the late Mr. Robert Warren, Monkstown. Atten- 
tion was drawn to the work of the Sph gnum Department, Royal College 
of Science, Dublin, in the preparation of Sp gnum Moss dressings for 
wounds (made from S. cuspidaium and 5. cymhifotium) supplied to the 
War Office, and to the appeal made for voluntary helpers to aid in collect- 
ing the moss. The report was adopted. W. B. Lacy, Hon. Treasurer, 
read his report, which was also adopted. Five new members were elected. 
The following Officers and Committee, for ensuing session, were elected : — 
President, Professor I. Swain; Vice-Presidents, Professor M. Hartog, 
T. Farrington, H. Lund, W. H. Johnson, R. A. Phillips ; Hon. Secretary, 
J. Noonan ; Hon. Treasurer, W. B. Lacy ; Committee, Miss M. E. Bergin, 
Miss B. E. Duke, Mrs. L. Porter, M. Holland, D. J. O Mahony. J. C. Rowe. 
May 31. — Excursion to Little Island. — A large party, comprising 
a number of students from University College as well as members of the 
Club, walked from the station to the quarries east of the golf links. Here 
the conductor, Professor Swain, after giving a general account of some of 
the more striking features in the geology of the neighbourhood, proceeded 
to describe some of the fossils likely to be found in the limestone. Many 
of the party succeeded in obtaining specimens of Polyzoa, Brachiopoda, 
and Corals. Among the finds may be included the following genera : — 
Fenestella, Rhjmchonella, Spirifera, Productus, Amplexus, and Litho- 
strotion. The \\ eathering of the limestone by solution was seen to give 
rise to fantastic forms in the upper beds of the quarries. Proceeding west- 
ward the party examined a quarry out of which considerable quantities 
of red marble had been raised for architectural work in Cork and in 
Great Britain. 
June 7. — Visit to University College. — A large party of members 
and friends assembled at 3.30 p.m. in the Biological Institute, where 
they were received by Professor Hartog, who, after explaining the equip- 
ment of the Institute, acted as guide through the Plant-houses, and the 
Geological, Zoological, and Ethn ological Museums. Many of the visitors 
learned with surprise that the Orange trees in the Plant-houses once 
flourished in the old Cork Botanic Gardens (now St. Joseph s Cemetery). 
In the Zoological Museum much interest was taken in the Harvey Collec- 
tion of Irish Birds and Mammals, where was seen the Western Rufous 
Warbler, shot at the Old Head of Kinsale, in 1876, by Mr. F. R. Rohu, who 
presented it to the College. This bird was long believed to be a Nightin- 
gale, but v/as correctly identified in 1899 by Mr. Howard Saunders. 
