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THE jubilee of the Dublin Naturalists' Field Club will be celebrated in Dublin on July 11-13 by a meeting of representative delegates from many of the natural history societies in Ireland and Great Britain, and probably from abroad. Formed fifty years ago with Prof. E. Perceval Wright as its first president, the man mostly responsible for the initiation of the Dublin Naturalists' Field Club was its vice-president, Dr. A. C. Haddon, the veteran anthropologist now at Cambridge. The formation of the Irish Field Club in 1894 brought the Society into closer touch with other natural history bodies in Ireland, while in 1892 it was largely responsible for forming the old Irish Naturalist as a monthly journal for the scientific recording of its and other societies' proceedings. Among the more notable workers of the Field Club in its history were G. H. Carpenter, the entomologist and mammal ogist, for many years its president, as at the Galway Field Club conference of 1895; Dr. R. Lloyd Praeger, its secretary in late Victorian times, who wrote the flora section of the British Association Handbook for its Dublin meeting of 1908; and David McArdle, of Glasnevin, who wrote the section on mosses and lichens in the same handbook. Other prominent members of the Field Club in its early years were Prof. T. Johnson, its treasurer, Prof. E. J. M. M'Weeney of Dublin and Prof. G. F. Fitzgerald of Trinity College.
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Jubilee of the Dublin Naturalists' Field Club. Nature 135, 538 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135538c0
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