34 ^ 1^^ lyisli SaLiiralisl. February, 



OBITUARY. 



GEORGE DUNLEAVY, 



Of the many lightkcepers whose well-filled schedules formed the basis 

 of Mr. Barrington's Irish Migration Reports, few contributed so much 

 excellent work as George Dunleavy, who, we regret to see, passed away 

 on the 3rd of January last, at his Islandmagee home, Ballylumford. 

 Dunleavy was stationed at the Fastnet lighthouse in the years 1886-8, 

 and from that station he sent Mr. Harrington the first Lapland Bunting 

 known to have visited Ireland, as well as the third and fifth Irish 

 examples of the Pied Flycatcher, three Black Redstarts, and a Common 

 Redstart. After leaving the Fastnet he was in charge of less promising 

 lighthouses — Spit Bank (1889-91), N. Drogheda (1892-3), Samphire 

 Island (1894-5), and Dungarvan (1896-7), and had naturally fewer 

 opportunities of sending rare birds ; but his vigilances as an observer 

 and his accuracy in noting what he saw made the poorest station a centre 

 of ornithological interest when Dunleavy filled its schedules. His 

 letters showed that he took real ])leasure in the work. At the time of 

 liis death he had attained the age of 72. 



C. E. M. 



NOTES. 



BOTANY. 

 Trichia affinis in Connaught and Ulster. 



In a report of a meeting of the Dublin Microscopical Club, p. 13 ante, 

 it is stated that Trichia affinis de Bary has only been recorded from 

 Leinster and Munster. Reference to Miss Lister's report on the 

 Mycetozoa, Clare Island Survey [Proc. R. I. Acad., vol. xxxi., part 

 63) shows that this species has been found in both Counties Galway and 

 Mayo. In Proc. Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, series 2, vol. vii., 

 pp. 86, loi and 161-163, it is moreover recorded for Counties Antrim, 

 Leitrim, Sligo and Fermanagh. I have also collected it in County Down, 

 and found this species to be generally common. 



Margarita D. Stelfox. 



Ballymagee, Bangor, Co. Down. 



Elymus arenarius and Asparagus offi*cma!is on the 



North Bull, Dublin. 



On a visit paid to the North Bull on the i6th September last, my first 

 visit since the Bull was closed to the public on its adoption as a military 

 rifle range towards the close of 191 4, I found four patches of this fine 

 grass well established and in fruit along the outer or sea edge of the sand 

 bank beyond the northern end of the golf links. I saw no trace of the grass 

 here in the autumn of 1914, when I examined this part of the Bull in 



