76 The hish Naturalist. April, 



February i8. — The third busineSvS meeting of the session was held in 

 the Royal Irish Academy House. G. H. Pethybridge, Ph.D. (President), 

 in the chair. J. de W. Hinch read his report as delegate of the Club 

 at the celebration of the Centenary of the Geological Society of London 

 in September, 1907. The Report dealt with an excursion into the Crag 

 districts of Suffolk and Essex which had been organised by the Society, 

 with the official reception in London on September 26 (when an address 

 of congratulation from the D N.F.C. was presented by the delegate), and 

 with excursions in the Thames valley and Kent, which took place after 

 the official receptions had concluded. The President then read a letter 

 from Sir Archibald Geikie, thanking the Club on behalf of the Geological 

 vSociety for the address it had presented. J. BayIvEv Buti,eu, M.A., 

 brought forward the Report of the Corresponding Societies Committee 

 of the British Association for 1907. The Report dealt with the British 

 Association proposals for the establishment of a photographic survey o^ 

 the British Isles, and with proposals for a Fungus Survej*. The Presi- 

 dent gave a short account of what the sub-committee of the Club 

 had alread}- done with reference to the Photographic Survey. J. de \V. 

 Hinch then read a paper on " The Occurrence of Shelly Drift at 12.50 

 feet in the Killakee Valle}-." An abstract of this paper will be published, 

 in the Irish Naturalist. Miss Helen Laird, B.A,, and Miss Walker, B.A., 

 were elected members. 



BELFAST NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB. 



February 22— Botanical Section.— Rev. C. H. Waddei,!,, B.D., 

 lectured on " Our Native Orchids, how they grow and where to find 

 them." The lecture was illustrated by mounted specimens of the various 

 species. 



NOTES. 



BOTANY. 



Irish Algse. 



In the /otirnal of the Linnean Society (vol. xxxviii., pp. 279-2S9, plates 

 29-21, January, 1908), Prof G. S. West publishes a paper on "Some 

 Critical Green Algae," in which Polychatophora simplex from Lough 

 Gartan, Donegal, is described as a new species, and W. Archers 

 Cosmariuvi platyisthtim is re-described under the name letraedron 

 platyisthiitn. 



