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birds Mrs. Lawrenson exhibited some very beautifuj new hybrid 

 daffodils, and Mr. R. Wei^ch (Belfast), photographs showing the effects 

 of the great December gale in the North of Ireland 



NOTES. 



Portraits of Irish IVIcn of Science and of others who have 

 worked for the Advancement of Science in Ireland. — For 



some time I have had it in contemplation to exhibit in a suitable part of 

 the Museum a collection of portraits of persons identified with the 

 progress of science in Ireland. 



Quite recently a number of portraits having become available for this 

 purpose, and others, as the result of special correspondence, having been 

 presented or promised, the time is now close at hand when the collection 

 can be placed on view. 



I therefore desire to make known through the pages of the Irish 

 Naturalist, that contributions and loans to this collection of portraits of 

 eminent and acknowledged men of science belonging to the above 

 denomination will be gratefully accepted. 



Circumstances have rendered it desirable that no restriction whatever 

 should be put upon the style or nature of the portraits so contributed, 

 no funds being available for securing uniformity. Hence we have 

 decided to accept oil paintings, lithographs, etchings, or photographs, 

 and to exhibit them as received, save that suitable frames will be 

 supplied when needed. 



Portraits of Mathematicians, Astronomers, Physicists, Meteorologists, 

 Geologists, Botanists, Zoologists, Antiquarians, and Numismatists will 

 be arranged in separate groups. In the cases of those vvho are deceased, 

 short biographical notices will be attached to the portraits. 



V. Bai,!,, Science and Art Museum, Dublin. 



BOTANY. 

 PHANEROGAMS. 



Th3 Lesser Burnst (Poterium Sansuisorba, Linn.), in the 

 North of Ireland. — In Vol. i of the Irish Naturalist, 1892 (p. 81), is 

 recorded for the first time, the occurrence of the Lesser Burnet in the 

 North of Ireland. In a large field at Glenmore, near Lisburn, County 

 Antrim, some patches of the plant growing close together were then 

 found, with every appearance of being native there. It has continued to 

 flourish in this spot, and this year, early as the season is (March), it has 

 unexpectedly been found in another part of the same large field. In 

 this latter spot, which is distant about three hundred yards from that 

 mentioned in my former note, there are numerous plants, covering 

 nearly a square yard. This, I should thinly, tends to confirm the view 

 that the species is indigenous in the north. It may be added that the 

 meadow has been known to me for close on forty j^ears, and that at no 

 time during that period has it been under cultivation. 



John H. Davies, Lisburn. 



ZOOLOGY. 



AMPHIBIANS. 



Irish Newts.— All the newts I have hitherto received from various 

 parts of Ireland, belong to the one species {Molge vulgaris, L. ).^ Further 

 search for the other species is therefore necessary, chiefly in the Co. 

 Galway, where the late distinguished naturalist, Mr. M'Calla discovered 

 a larger kind readily distinguishable, as he remarked, from both male 

 and female of the Common Newt During the forthcoming visit of the 

 Irish Field Clubs to Galway, t is to be hoped that the question will be 



