264 The Irish Naturalist. December, 



History objects from the East ; Dr. C. J. Patten, a few of the rarer Irish 

 birds recently obtained from Co. Dublin ; Greenwood Pirn, M.A., Physi- 

 anthtts. in fruit; and anew Moss, Hypopterycium sp. ; Wistaria sinensis, in 

 fruit, from Rosanna, Co. Wicklow ; Ricinns, in fruit, &c. ; J. St. J. Phillips 

 (Hon. Sec. B.N.F.C.), Torridon Sandstone (slide of) ; Dr. C. B. Plowright, 

 a collection of Fungi presented to the Science and Art Museum; Mrs. 

 Carleton Rea, drawing of Agaricus strobiliformis (from Lucan Demesne, 

 1898); A. Gore Rider, CE-, an Indian huntsman's fetich; Dr. R. F. 

 Scharff, B.Sc, a collection of vertebrate and invertebrate animals from 

 the Pyrenees; Henry J. Seymour, B.A., 1. Gold nuggets recently obtained 

 from two different localities in Ireland ; 2. A hammerstoue used by the 

 natives of Matabeleland for the extraction of gold from its matrix; Miss 

 L. Shackleton, drawings of British flowering plants, &c. ; Mrs. J. T. 

 Tatlow, results of shore-collecting, shells, &c, in South Donegal, June 

 and July, 1899 ; R. Welch (B.N.F.C), British laud and freshwater shells ; 

 Irish geological photographs. 



One table was occupied by a large number of fungi, edible and 

 poisonous, collected by a number of members the day before in the 

 Dunran demesne, kindly thrown open by Mr. B. T. Patterson, CE , a 

 Club member, who added to the Club's indebtedness by inviting the party 

 to afternoon tea. 



Mr. Moore, the Keeper of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Glasnevin, 

 had, as usual, an interesting group of plants, many of which have 

 not been seen in cultivation before. Some of the succulent plants illus- 

 trated mimicry of rock, stone, lichen, and similarity of habit in widely- 

 separated species. Dr. A. H. Foord, F.G.S., and H. Hanna, M.A., D.Sc, 

 were prevented by illness from exhibiting. 



Cork Naturalists' Field Club. 

 October 19.— Under the auspices of the Cork Literary and Scientific 

 Society the inaugural lecture of the new session of the Cork Naturalists' 

 Field Club was delivered by the President, Mr. T. Farrington, M.A., who 

 took for his subject, "Some of the relations of the Atmosphere to Plants." 

 The lecture was illustrated by a number of limelight illustrations and 

 experiments. Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, Bart., President of the 

 Literary and Scientific Society, occupied the chair. The lecturer 

 described the different elements of which the atmosphere was composed, 

 showing by experiments the influence they had on one another, and 

 proceeded with his lecture, showing what the atmosphere did for the 

 plant at different stages of its growth. At the conclusion a warm vote 

 of thanks was passed to Mr. Farrington. 



