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constant, the study of certain members of the group may 

 become more hopeful of results. It is therefore most 

 satisfactory to find a long series of illustrations of Bosmina 

 longispina and B. lo?igirostris, so that we may henceforth hope 

 to get some firm footing when trying to differentiate these 

 unstable forms. The same may be said of the Cejiodafifmicz, 

 a genus which much required elucidation. The vexata qucestio 

 of the helmeted forms of Daphnia has also received careful 

 stud} 7 ; D. lacustris G.O.S., Jardinii Baird, galeata G.O.S.. 

 and kahlbergensis Brady, being grouped as sub-species or 

 varieties of D. hyalina, an arrangement as to which much may 

 be said and written ; and probably onry the careful comparison 

 of a large number of the various forms from various countries 

 may bring about any general consensus of opinion. In L,ough 

 Erne a well-marked race of D. lacustris var. galeata swims in 

 company with shoals of equally characteristic specimens of 

 D. kahlbergensis, the former being always at least double the 

 size of the latter. 



Drumreaske, Monaghan. 



NEWS GLEANINGS. 



Royal Irish Academicians. 



In the first batch of members elected into the Royal Irish Academy 

 under the new rules, natural science is well represented, zoology by Mr. 

 Robert Patterson, of Belfast, and botany by Dr. E. J. M'Weeney, of 

 Dublin. The other new members are the Right Hon. Justice Madden 

 and two well-known Fellows of Trinity College, Mr. M. W. J. Fry and 

 the Rev. W. K. Westropp Roberts. 



Mr. F. Neale and the Limerick Field Club. 



Mr. Francis Neale, so well-known to Irish naturalists as the Hon. 

 Secretary from its foundation of the Limerick Field Club, is leaving the 

 south-western city for Belfast. He has been presented with a substantial 

 and well-deserved testimonial by the members of the Club, whose success 

 has owed so much to his untiring energy. We wish him all prosperity 

 in his new sphere of work in the North, and we hope that the Limerick 

 Club will secure the services of as energetic an officer as he has proved 

 himself to be. 



