Vol. xxvi., No. 1 



CONTENTS. 



The Chartaceae of Fanad, East Donegal. Rev. Canon G. R 

 Bullock- Webster, M.A. .. 



The State of Ireland.— Rowland Southern, B.Sc. 



Rare Plants of the Co. Down Coast — Rev. C. H. Waddell, 



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Irish Societies : — 



Royal Zoological Society 

 Dublin Microscopical Club 

 Belfast Naturalists' Field Club 

 Dublin Naturalists' Field Club 

 Cork Naturalists' Field Club 



Notes : — 



Hypopithys multiflora in Co. Leitrim — R. Lloyd Praeger 



Peterogonium gracile in Co. Down — Rev. C. H. Waddell, 



Naias flexilis in Donegal — R. Lloyd Praegar 



Filago minima at Howth — D. B. Bradshaw 



Anosia archippus in Co. Cork . . r. . . 



Quail and Short-eared Owl on Migration at Rockabill Light-Station 



Prof. ,C. J. Patten, M.D. 

 Swans and their Nests— G. H. Pentland 

 Recent Notes on Irish Birds . . ^f .. . 

 Speed of FHght of Leislerls Bat — G. H. Pentland 

 Bacjgers and Hedgehogs — G. H. Pentland 

 Boldness of a Stoat — G. H. Pentland 



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