22 The Irish Naturalist. January, 



NOTES. 



BOTANY. 



'Mreland; Industrial and Agrrlcultural.'* 



Mr. Praeger's stalemeut in the Irish Naturalist (Dec, 1902, p. 362) 

 that the definition of the " Irish Types of distribution " in my article on 

 the Flora of Ireland are "quite erroneous" is surprising in view of the 

 fact that they were written out for me by the reviewer himself, as his 

 paper in the Academy's Proceedings had not appeared. Injustice to the 

 Handbook and to the readers of the Naturalist, it might have been stated 

 that the article, for which I claim no credit, gave, thanks to the help I 

 acknowledge in the article, a bibliography of the more important con- 

 tributions to our knowledge of Irish mosses, liverworts, fungi, and algae 

 (fresh and marine), and not simply to the flowering plants in which the 

 reviewer is more especially interested. The general features of the 

 distribution of the flowering plants in Ireland are so fully dealt with in 

 the new edition of the Cybele Hibernica, and in " Irish Topographica 

 Botany," that little more than a reference to these works seemed to be 

 necessary, having regard to the character of the Handbook. 



T. JOHNvSON. 



Royal College of Science, Dublin. 



[Perhaps Prof. Johnson will favour me with a sight of the note which 

 I gave him.— R. Ivi*. P.] 



ZOOLOGY. 



The Marine Mollusca of Narin Strand, Co. Donegal. 



The following do not appear to have been previously recorded from 



North-west Ireland. They are the results of drift collected last July : — 



Margarita helicina, Fabricius — numerous ; Eulima ijiterjtiedia, Cantraine — 



one specimen ; Tomatina ina?i!??iillata, Philippi — one specimen ; Etvilia 



castanea, Montagu — two valves. This latter species seems to have only 



been recorded previously from Counties Cork, Kerry, and Galway. The 



drift also contained fourteen specimens of Otina otis, Turton (see In'sh 



Naturalist, Jul}', 1902). One valve occurred of Modiolaria costulata, Risso, 



apparently only previously recorded from Berehaven, Killala Bay, and 



Bundoran. Alvania cancellata, Da C, and Pyrgulina iiidistincta, Mont., var. 



brevior, were each represented by one specimen. Eulima incurva, Renier, 



Odostomia turrita, Hauley, and Astarte triangzdaris, Mont., were common. 



The drift contained altogether about fifty small species, some of which 



have been already recorded in Mrs. Tatlow's interesting paper on the 



Mollusca of south-west Donegal (^Irish Naturalist, November, 1899)- 



Dr. Chaster and Mr. J. T. Marshall have most kindly looked over the 



critical species. 



A. Iv. Massy. 

 Malahide. 



