| Administrative History | Caithness Field Club was formed in 1902 during a meeting at the Carnegie Public Library. The Club was funded by subscriptions and aimed to promote and facilitate the study of geology, botany, archaeology and allied subjects with particular reference to Caithness. Meetings, excursions and lectures were arranged and the Club was initially popular. By 1926 however interest had declined and the only two meetings following this, in 1928 and 1929, failed to reach a quorum. The Club was disbanded in 1933. 1966 saw the centenary of the death of Robert Dick (1811-1866) a noted local naturalist and geologist and a small committee was formed to set up an exhibition commemorating this. The exhibition was met with such enthusiasm that the Field Club was reformed with some success, organising lectures and outings and publishing bulletins regularly from 1973. The Club is still in existence at the time of cataloguing (October 2021). |