4 The Irish Naturalist. January 



The late Sir R. LI. Patterson dwelt on the changes on the 

 foreshore of Belfast Lough- and W. F. de V. Kane on 

 Recent Progress in Irish Natural History. Recent Irish 

 Glaciers was the subject discussed by the late G. H. 

 Kinahan. R. Welch described the Gobbins Cliffs and Caves 

 and a new Irish Museum in Belfast. Prof. Gregg Wilson 

 communicated an essay on the proposed Marine Laboratory 

 for Ulster. A few more subjects may be mentioned, 

 namely, Three Weeks in South Kerry by F. Bouskell, the 

 State of Ireland by R. Southern, and finally Provincial 

 Museums and the Irish Names of Animals by myself. 



Zoology. — As might be expected in a magazine devoted 

 to the natural history of a definite geographical area, the 

 zoological papers in the Irish Naturalist have been largely 

 faunistic in scope. The Reports of the Field Club Union 

 Conferences at Galway, Sligo and Kenmare included lists 

 of animals of various groups with many new records, and 

 the Survey of Lambay in which many observers collaborated 

 was a fairly complete piece of faunistic work, which led up 

 to the monographic work on Clare Island afterwards under- 

 taken by the Royal Irish Academy. Among local records 

 of various groups of animals may be specially mentioned 

 papers on collections from the Mitchelstown Cave by 

 Carpenter, and from the MacGillicuddy's Reeks b}' Carpenter 

 and Scharff. 



Many papers on Irish Vertebrates have appeared during 

 the thirty years. Among Mammals, the most noteworthy 

 work has been done on the Irish Bats ; the series of papers 

 by the late N. H. Alcock and C. B. Moffat on the habits 

 of native species — the Whiskered, Long-eared and Hairy- 

 armed — contain valuable material for the student of 

 European Mammals. Articles on Birds have, of course, 

 been very numerous, papers setting forth detailed statistics 

 as ' to species breeding in various districts of Ireland by 

 R. J. Ussher and R. Warren, and articles on migrants by 

 R. M. Barrington are m.emorials of tlie work of those three 

 great ornithologists and of the keen interest which they 

 showed in this magazine. Much of their work was subse- 

 quently incorporated in their well known books. Mention 

 must also be made of the vivid account of the habits of 



