This year's meeting will consist of five days of excursions, evening talks and a conference with the theme Amateur Recording in Ireland. The meeting is open to members of all natural history organisations and the excursions will cover all four disciplines of botany, zoology, round tower and crosses, Creevykeel court tomb, Crevelea Abbey. Carrowmore megalithic cemetery, Maeve's cairn, Parke's Castle and Lissadale House. A full programme and booking form are now available. The estimated cost for event is in the region of 60- 80.
Various options are available, including attendance for the weekend only, and for the full days.
The cost includes all excursions, evening lectures and conference buffet, but excludes accomodation. Prehistoric Ireland will be surveyed in the first half of the course. In the new year the origins of human society and the spread of human population across the globe will be dealt with. There will also be practical elements in the course. Unfortunately in the article by Tom Hayes on alignments at Beaghmore some errors crept in due to symbols in one computer program printing out differently when the article was transferred to another program.