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Academy's Fauna and Flora Committee and the Fisheries 

 Branch of the Department of Agriculture and Technical 

 Instruction published a large number of valuable papers 

 on the natural history of Ireland. Abstracts or reviews 

 of all these as well as of all papers relating to Irish zoology, 

 botany or geology in British or foreign journals are to be 

 found in the pages of the Irish Naturalist. It will only be 

 necessary now to allude to the more prominent original 

 papers contained in the journal. 



General Subjects. — The editors have contributed 

 articles on the meetings of the British Association in Dublin 

 and Belfast and on the Clare Island Survey. Prof. Carpenter 

 WTote on the peculiar mingling of animals of southern 

 and northern origin, on the " Dublin Museum and Irish 

 Naturahsts " and on " Useful Studies for Field Naturalists." 

 Mr. Praeger's papers dealt with Irish Field Clubs, the Irish 

 Field Club Union, the Fauna and Flora of Clonbrock, the 

 Conferences of Kenmare, Sligo, Galway and Rosapenna, 

 Irish Caves, the Bog-burst disaster in County Kerry, an 

 Expedition to Rockall, ten years' work of the Fauna and 

 Flora Committee, a method of representing Geographical 

 Distribution, the origin of the Fauna and Flora of Lambay, 

 and Derc Ferna, or the Cave of Dunmore. Historical 

 notes on Lambay was the title of a paper by the Honourable 

 Cecil Baring. The subject of caves was treated by several 

 authors. Among them may be noted accounts of visits 

 to Mitchelstown Cave by E. A. Baker and by E. A. Martel ; 

 Blackwater Cavern by J. H. Comyn and by R. W. Evans, 

 H. J. Molony and E. C. Ronayne ; Ovens Cave by R. 

 W. Evans ; and the Cave of Cloyne by F. H. Maberley. 

 R. J. Ussher wrote on Castlepook Cave in County Cork 

 and on " Cave Hunting." " The Aran Islands, a study in 

 Ethnography " was the title of an article b}^ Professor A. 

 C. Haddon. N. Colgan chose as subjects " An Irish 

 Naturalist in Spain," " The Folk Lore of Irish Plants and 

 Animals," and " Irish Animal Names." C. B. Moffat's 

 contributions entitled " The Struggle for Existence " were 

 the hrst published exposition of that principle of claim to 

 " territory " by birds during the breeding season, which 

 is now regarded as most important by many omithologLst.-i. 



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