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PROCEEDINGS OF IRISH SOCIETIES. 



RoYAi, Zooi^oGiCAi, Society. 



Recent donations comprise a Badger from W. J. Matson, Esq., and a 

 number of fish from P. Mahony, Esq. A Golden Agouti has been pur- 

 chased, and a Red Deer fawn born in the Gardens. 



16,150 persons visited the Gardens in June. 



Dubinin Microscopicai, Ci,ub. 



May i6th.— The Club met at Mr. F. W. Moore's. 



Mr. Greenwood Pim exhibited a curious black mould which occurred 

 on Bananas, given him by Prof. Cole, and which had been imported from 

 the Canary Islands. Being unable to identify it, Mr. Pim sent specimens 

 to Mr. Massee, who states it is Glenospora Cicrtisii (Berk.), and that it 

 had not previously occurred in Great Britain. 



Professor T. Johnson exhibited Ectocarpus sccundus (Kiitz.), a brown 

 sea- weed showing two kinds of flurilocular sporangia, like those des- 

 cribed recently in this species by Bornet, who found the plurilocular 

 sporangia differing in size, shape, and in the size of the compartments. 

 The contents of the larger loculi are probably female, and of the smaller 

 male. Direct experimental evidence is required. The species (taken in 

 Bantry Bay) is an addition to the list of Irish species. 



Mr. M'Ardi^E exhibited Diplophylluin miniitum, (Dicks.), which he 

 collected recently in L,ord Howth's demesne. The specimens of this rare 

 liverwort showed the dichotomous branching of the plant, and shoots 

 bearing in the axil of each leaf antheridia of a large size, having 

 remarkably long pseudopodia. . 



June 20th.— The Club met at Mr. Greenwood Pim's, who exhibited 

 Ustilago Vaillantii (TuL), which .occurred on the anthers and ovones of 

 Scilla bifolia in the Trinity College Botanic Garden, forming the so-called 

 " Black-eyed " variety of that Scilla. It was referred to Dr. P. Wright, 

 who kindly identified it, and states that it is an addition to the British 

 Mycologic Flora. It is said to occur also on Gupa lutea, 



Mr. M'ArdIvE exhibited Jtatgermania bicrenata (Lindenberg), which he 

 recently collected in Howth Demesne. This scarce plant is easily 

 separated from the other \i\di.^r\.\.dX^ Jiingermani(x, by the smaller size, acute 

 segments of its leaves, and remarkable guttulate cells, and above all the 

 paroecious inflorescence. It is an addition to the Co. Dublin list of 

 liverworts. 



Mr. J. N. HaIvBERT exhibited the nymph of Cryptostemma alienw/i, H.S., 

 recently captured amongst wet gravel in the bed of the Dodder, near 

 . Tallaght. Mr. A. H. Haliday, when recording this insect from the Black 

 Lakes, Co. Kerry (JVat. Hist. Rev. 1855, p. 61), mentioned the occurrence 

 of theyellowishlarvceandpupaewiththeperfectinsect. The nymph, how- 

 ever, is further distinguished by the presence of a well-defined red colour 

 patch on the dorsal side of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th abdominal segments. 

 This species, which at first gave some trouble as regards its affinities, is 

 now placed among the Ci/nicidcc next Ceratocombtis. 



Mr. Henry J. Seymour showed a section of a Gold-bearing Quartz- 

 Diorite, from Fort Salisbury, Matabeleland. The gold, which occurs in 

 small fragments quite visible to the unaided eye, is almost entirely 



