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The tawiiy mother, with her three vSpotted young, playing in thesunshine 

 formed a beautiful sight for several weeks, but, unfortunately, she was 

 not able to rear the cubs, and two of them died. It is hoped that the 

 third may be saved by hand-feeding. Two litters of Lion cubs 

 were born in October — one of them from •'"Conn "and "Vesta" in the 

 open-air den ; the other from "Niger" and "Nigeria," the two West 

 African lions given by H. I\I. the King. 



The Council lately decided to publish some of the missing records of 

 the Society which had been collected from old Dublin papers by the 

 late Mr. Caesar Litton Falkiner and Professor D. J. Cunningham. During 

 the many changes through which the Society has passed, the reports of 

 the Society of about twenty years were lost, and it was only by hunting 

 up the old newspapers that some of these have been found, and are now 

 printed. The period referred to covers from 1840-1860. The number of 

 copies is limited. vSonie extra copies have been retained and these can be 

 obtained from the Hon. vSecretary of the vSociety. 



DUBLIN MICROSCOPICAL CLUB. 



May 13 The Club met at Leinster House. Prof. G H. Carpenter 



(President) showed the first larval stage of the Apple Sucker (^Psylla 

 niali.') 



Dr. G. H. PethybridGE exhibited the parasitic fungus Ustilago 

 longissima, Sow., which he had collected on the shore of Lough Melviu 

 Co. Fermanagh, growing on the leaves of Glyceria fluitaiis. It has pre- 

 viously onl}' been recorded in Ireland as growling on G. aqiiatica on 

 the banks of the Boyne and at Enfield. 



R. Southern exhibited a polychaet worm, BraiithioJiuna veskulosum 

 (Mont.), belonging to the family vSabellidae. It was first described by 

 the English naturalist Montagu from the South Devon coast, about 100 

 years ago. It lives in sandy tubes near low- water mark. The species is 

 chiefly remarkable for the presence of a single compound eye, just below 

 the tip of each gill filament. The Irish specimens were obtained at 

 Ross shore, on the west coast, this being its first Irish recoi'd. It occurs 

 on the shores of the English Channel and the Mediterranean. 



W. F. GuNN showed leaves of carnations attacked by Uromyces dianthi 

 (Niessl.>, and also a slide of the uredospores. The latter are spheroid or 

 elliptical, pale brown, with thick walls, and are produced in blisters or 

 pustules on the surface of the leaves. It is a difficult parasite to eradic- 

 ate, and burning the affected plants w^ould appear to be the only certain 

 and effective procedure in severe cases. 



It was agreed to hold the annual excursion on June 20, and to visit the 

 Devil's Glen, Co. Wicklow. 



October 14.— The Club met at Leinster House. 



Dr. G. H. PethybridGE (President) exhibited the fungus Dichomera 

 Sauhinetti (Mont.), Cooke, which is new to Ireland. It was found growing 

 parasitically on the bark of young trees of Vbmis moutana, var. vegeta, at 

 the Department of Agriculture's Forestry Station, at Avondale, Co, 



