50 The Irish Naturalist. I.February, 



The Mayor presided at the election of officers and committee, who 

 were unanimously elected as follows:— President, W. A. Fogerty, M.A., 

 M.D. ; Vice-Presidents, Miss Ebrill, J. F. G. Windle, C.S. ; Hon. Sec, 

 Mr. Francis Neale ; Committee, Miss Alice Doyle, Mrs. Robert Gibson, 

 Mr. B. Barrington, Rev. W. E. Bentley, M.A. ; Mr. W. Ebrill, Rev. 

 Timothy Lee, Adm ; Mr. R. D. O'Brien, Hon. Sec. Photographic 

 section, Dr. George J. Fogerty; Hon. Sec. Archaeological section, Mr. 

 P. P. Lynch, M.R.I. A. 



A vote of thanks to the officers for the preceding year was unanimously 

 passed on the proposition of Mr. P. J. Lynch, seconded by Mr. \V. 

 De Courcey. 



N OTES 



BOTANY. 

 " Notes on Cybele Hibernica."— A Correction. 



As a certain passage in Mr. Praeger's " Notes on Cybele Hibernica " 

 published in last month's Jriih Naturalist appears to us to be likely to 

 lead to misapprehension, we have asked the editors to give us space 

 here for a few words of correction. The passage in question occurs on 

 p. 7, where a length)- list of district-records additional to those brought 

 together in the 2nd edition of Cybele is prefaced by these words: — "Let 

 me at once say that all the material which I have was freely placed at 

 the disposal of the editors, and that much of it was used in that work." 

 We think that the only conclusion to be drawn from these words is this, 

 that having had in our possession all the material from which these 

 additional records are drawn, we capriciously declined to make use of a 

 large portion of it. The fact is that we were quite ignorant of the 

 existence of these additional records. Mr. Praeger informed us, indeed, 

 that he had in his hands a large mass of botanical matter collected with 

 a view to the preparation of a Topographical Botany of Ireland, and 

 likely to contain some items of interest for the 2nd edition of Cybele ; but 

 that this material, which we were free to make use of, was in such a form 

 that it could not be readily consulted. The only part of the material, 

 which at any time came into our possession, was that extracted for us by 

 Mr. Praeger himself, which, Ave need hardly say, we gladly made use of. 



Nathaniel Coegan. 

 Dublin. Reginald W. Scuij,y. 



I gladly do my share in securing immediate publication for the above* 

 though I do not appiehend that an) 7 one will place that uncompli- 

 mentary construction on the passage quoted which the writers fear. 

 It was not possible for the editors of Cybele to know what particular 

 records lay in my hands, nor could I tell of what particular notes they 

 stood in need. I wrote this last sentence in my paper in last month's 

 Irish Naturalist immediately after the words they take exception to, but 

 cut it out as superfluous. So far as lay in my power, I gave the editors 



