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by the ice from loose Pliocene deposits lying in the bed of 

 the Irish Sea. The occurrence of such enormous quantities 

 of chalk-flints and coal may be accounted for in a similar 

 manner. These erratics might easily have been brought 

 by the Irish Sea glacier from coal-bearing and Cretaceous 

 strata also hidden in the Irish Sea basin. 



The correlation of the Wexford and Dubhn drifts will be 

 fully discussed in a subsequent paper. 



Geological Survey Office, Dublin. 



IRISH SOCIETIES. 



ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Recent gifts include two Gibbons, and two Prevost's Squirrels from Dr. 

 T. M. Falkiner, an Indian Wild Dog from Mr. W. E. J. Dobbs, a Russian 

 Brown Bear from the Duke of Orleans, a Rabbit from Mr. J. Wilson, 

 a Goshawk from Dr. Tate, a pair of Kestrels rom Mr. Jas. Baily, a 

 Long-eared Owl from Mr. J. F, Jamison, two Wild Duck from T. N. 

 Scott, two Blue Herons from Captain Irwin, a pair of Cherry -crowned 

 Mangabeys, a Mona Monkey, two Guinea -Pigs, a pair of Barn Owls, two 

 Alligators and two Tortoises have been deposited or purchased. 



The Gibbons are an especially welcome acquisition, as for several months 

 the Monkey-House has been without these active and graceful apes. 



NOTES. 



BOTANY. 



Irish Plants. 



Ceratophylliim dermersum was observed last month growing in Hacket 

 Lough near Headford ; it has not been recorded previously for any of the 

 three divisions of Galway. Orohanche minor is extending its range. I note 

 in the present issue (p. 163) some stations in Kerry, and since then have 

 seen it at Carrowmore near Sligo, the first station in the west — growing on 

 sown clover, as it so often does. I do not think any of our northern botanists 

 have recorded the appearance and spread of Elymus arenariits at Bally- 

 castle, Co. Antrim. It was not there twenty years ago, but now forms con- 

 spicuous colonies on the sands at the old harbour — it may have been 

 thrown out from a garden. In the aluminium works at Larne, I recently 

 noticed Sev.ecio vulgaris var. radiatus Koch growing abundantly. Neither 

 of these two ^ast is on record for the North-east. 



R. Lloyd Praeger. 



Dublin. 



