i899-] Anderson. — Natural History Museum, Galway. 13 r 



I note on a window, as I write, a good many invertebrate 

 types, living and well — sea-anemones and starfish, nereids 

 and periwinkles, crabs and tunicates, crickets and spiders. 

 In one tank are frogs and Freshwater Mussels, in another 

 Tadpoles. Chara is in one vessel, Spirogyra in another, and 

 Lemna in a third, whilst in some bog-water contained in ajar 

 are examples, naturally, of more simple organisms. 



The Museum is supplied with microscopes of the Beck, 

 Swift, and Zeiss build ; a one-fifteenth water immersion lens 

 goes with the Beck. This is an excellent objective. An oil 

 immersion (achromatic) belongs to a Zeiss combination. 

 There are many objectives of different powers. A lantern 

 microscope (Newton's best) has to be mentioned. The various 

 microscopic slides can be projected on the screen by means of 

 powers of moderate dimensions ; Beck's fifteenth has been 

 used for the projection of bacteria" with great success. Three 

 good section -cutters are amongst the apparatus, viz., those of 

 Thoma, Rutherford, and Cathcart. The Museum contains 

 boxes of Jauch's Flora Arte/acta and some of Brendel's flower 

 models. 

 Queen's College, Galway. 



ANIMAL PHOTOGRAPHY. 



Some members of the Avicultural Society are organising a Postal Club 

 for the encouragement of bird and other animal photography. They 

 invite the co-operation of photographer naturalists. Communications 

 should be addressed to the undersigned Hon. Sec, pro tern. 



Chas. Louis Hett. 

 Springfield, Brigg. 



