130 June, 



NEWS GLEANINGS. 



The Field Club Union Conference. 



The arrangements for the third triennial conference of the Irish Field 

 Clubs, which will be held in Dublin on June 18 to 22, are now well 

 forward, and the detailed programme will shortly be issued. It includes 

 excursions to Glendalough, famed for its antiquities and the beauty of 

 its scenery ; to the Hill of Howth, and to Portmarnock, which is classic 

 ground to the zoological and botanical collector. Visits under skilled 

 o-uidance will be made to the Natural History Museum, the Royal Irish 

 Academy collections, the Zoological Gardens, the Glasnevin Botanic 

 Gardens, Trinity College and its Botanic Garden, Christ Church 

 Cathedral, and elsewhere ; and an evening conference on Field Club 

 matters will be held in the Lecture Theatre of the Royal Dublin Society. 



Irish Topographical Botany. 



Mr. Praeger's work will be issued by the Royal Irish Academy within 

 the next few weeks. 



The Geological Survey. 

 The Drift Survey of Ireland has commenced, under direction of Mr. 

 G. W. L,amplugh, whose name is well known in connection with similar 

 work in the North of England. The Dublin district has been first 

 undertaken, and it is hoped to issue the first sheet of the new map before 

 the close of the present year. 



The Belfast Field Club. 

 We note with regret the retirement from the secretaryship of the 

 veteran member, Mr. William Gray. The secretarial duties have been 

 undertaken by Mr. J. St. J. Phillips, who has previously seen service in 

 the same post, and Mr. Robert Patterson, well known to Irish zoologists. 

 We congratulate the Club on having secured such efficient substitutes 

 for Mr. Gray. 



A Conchological Exchange Club. 



We have received the prospectus of a new Club "whereby students of 

 the Mollusca can find a ready means of exchanging duplicate specimens-" 

 The Club is associated with the Midland Malacological Society, and the 

 Chairman is Prof. W. E- Collinge, editor of the Journal of Malacology. 

 Members of the society and subscribers to the Journal pay only is. a year 

 to the Club; other members, 2s. 6d. A "pool" is established to which 

 members are asked to contribute perfect localised specimens of British 

 Mollusca (either land, freshwater, or marine). From this " pool " the 

 desiderata of members will be as far as possible supplied. The Hon. 

 Secretary is Mr. Guy Breedon, 38, Station-road, King's Norton, 

 Birmingham. Doubtless some of our Irish conchologists will hasten to 

 join the Club. 



