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PROCEKDINGS OF IRISH SOCIKTIKS. 



ROYAI, ZOOI.OGICAI, SOCIETY. 



Recent donations to the Gardens are a pair of Harrier-Hawks, from 

 'F. A, Leigh, Esq. ; an African monkey from H. M. Smith, Esq. ; a Manx 

 cat from Mrs. Moore; and a Horned Owl from W. W. Despard, Esq. 



The following animals have been acquired by purchase: — a Camel, a 

 male kangaroo, a pair of wallabys, a Serval, two opossums, and two 

 Drills. 



About 18,000 persons visited the Gardens in April. 



DUBININ MICROSCOPICAI, CI^UB. 



Aprii, 2ist.— The Club met at Mr. G. Y. Dixon's. Mr. W. Archer 

 showed an alga sent to him by Mr. E. Parfitt, of Exeter, taken from a 

 stream near that city. The plant consists of slender filaments of oscilla- 

 toreous structure, and resembles Leptothrix ochracea^ from which, however, 

 it differs in its yellow colour in the mass. It may be Oscillatoria leptothi-ix. 



Colonel O'Hara showed corpuscles of human blood after an attack of 

 influenza. 



Mr. G. H. Carpenter showed sections through the body of a larval 

 Halobates. 



Dr. McWeeney showed sections of miliary tuberculosis of the human 

 oviduct. The giant-cells were numerous, and there was a great de- 

 velopment of small-cell inflammatory tissue beneath the branched 

 lumen of the tube. The bacilli, of which there were very few demon- 

 strable, were, for the most part, contained in the giant-cells. There 

 appeared to be a want of virulence in the organisms. 



Professor Cole exhibited a section showing an inclusion of Ordovician 

 rock in the granite of Killiney Park, Dublin. The included mass has 

 been converted into a tourmaline-schist, boric acid having probably 

 attacked it during the later stages of igneous activity. 



be:i,fast naTurai^IvSTS' field ci^ub. 



Aprii, 27th. — The President in the chair. This was the annual meet- 

 ing. The senior Secretary (Mr. R. Lloyd Praeger, M.R.I.A.), read the 

 annual Report, which showed that the membership was larger than ever 

 previously in the history of the society, and that the Club was in a 

 most flourishing condition. The Treasurer (Mr. W. H. Phillips, F.R.H.S.), 

 submitted the Statement of Accounts, which, with the Report, was 

 adopted. The office-bearers of the last year were re-elected, with some 

 slight changes on the committee. Discussion ensued on a proposed 

 change in the rules, and on the places to be visited during the summer 

 session. The junior Secretary (Mr. F.J. Bigger), reported on some con- 

 templated archaeological restorations. Mr. Praeger exhibited a number 

 of bones and fragments of antlers of the Irish Elk {Cervus gigantais) ob- 

 tained at the base of the bed of peat underl3dng the docks at Belfast, 

 which yielded the skull of the same species which he recently exhibited 

 (/. N., p. 22). An examination of the six collections to which prizes had 

 iaeen awarded concluded the business of the evening. 



DUBININ NATURAI^ISTvS' FIEI.D CI,UB. 



Aprii< 3otli. — The first excursion of the season was attended by forty- 

 four members. The party walked from Carrickmines to the Dingle, and 

 then on to the Scalp. Prof Cole pointed out the chief physical features 

 of these remarkable gorges, and explained their formation as at the last 

 evening meeting of the Club (/. N., p. 40). The party then proceeded 

 over the hill into the Lower Glencullen Valley where the middle sands 



