1901. 7 1 



CURRENT LITERATURE. 



Dogs from the Crannoges of Ireland. 



Under the above title Prof. Studer gave an interesting lecture before 

 the Natural History Society of Berne, in Switzerland, which has now 

 appeared in print (Mitth. d. Naturforsch. Gesellsch. Bern, 1900). Prof. 

 Studer's researches were made partly in Dublin and t'lso on dogs' skulls 

 contained in the Dublin Museum, casts of which were forwarded to him. 

 It is interesting and worthy of note that as far as the skull is compared 

 the ancient Irish Wolfhound agrees, according to Prof. Studer, with a 

 modern breed now in the possession of Mr. Walker, of St. Moritz, in 

 Switzerland. Although closely related to the Scottish Deerhound the 

 ancient Irish variety has a shorter snout and appears to have been a 

 more muscular dog. Both of these forms belong to a large race of dog, 

 remains of which have been discovered in the lake-dwellings on the 

 Ueberlingersee in Switzerland. This race has been described by Studer 

 under the name of Cam's Leineri, and it evidently lived in Switzerland 

 during the latter part of the Stone age. 



But this is not the only race of dog known from the Stone age. Sir 

 William Wilde discovered a skull of a small dog at a crannoge at 

 Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath, which according to Prof. Studer agrees with 

 Canis palustris of the Swiss lake-dwellings. This seems to have been a 

 dog of the type of the Pomeranian breed. 



Another dog's skull examined by Prof. Studer was one which was 

 found in the lake deposits of Lough Gur, near Ljinerick. It somewhat 

 resembles a type of dog from the Bronze age first described by Prof. 

 Waldrich, of Vienna, under the name of Cams intermedins, which was a 

 dog of middle size like the shepherd's dog. 



We possess therefore in Ireland the same three old' races of dogs as on 

 the continent, viz., C. Leineri, C. palustris, and C. intermedins, from which all 

 later varieties appear to have been evolved. 



R. F. S. 



Trinity College Herbarium. 



We have received No. 4 of Notes from the Botanical School of Trinity 

 College, Dublin, The part contains five papers by Dr. Henry Dixon, two 

 of them reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 

 three brief papers by Dr. B- P. Wright, various short notes, and an 

 obituary notice of the late Dr. G. J. Allman. 



Plant Architecture. 



To the February number of Knowledge Mr. Praeger contributes the first 

 of a series of botanical papers, the subject of the present article being 

 the architecture of plants as seen in roots and stems. 



To Professor Haddon. 



Our warm congratulations to Prof. A. C. Haddon, F.R.S., on his election 

 to a Junior Fellowship of Christ's College, Cambridge. 



