112 The Irish Nahiralisi, June, 



Mary " was brought to and suffered to drift in a very nasty 

 cross sea. For the next hour, supported only by a strong 

 sense of duty, we allowed our craft to drift with a hideous 

 motion compounded of pitch and roll. Meanwhile two scrapes 

 were made, the dredge being brought on board each time with 

 great difficulty and some risk ; but the results of both were 

 almost nil. A stone or so of sand with dead and broken shells 

 of the commonest species was all we got for our labour. A 

 third time the dredge was shot in about i6 fathoms, but no 

 sooner had it begun to scrape than a sudden tension of the line 

 showed that we had fouled on a rock. There v;as little rope to 

 spare, so the end was " belaj-ed " and a frantic effort made to 

 get w^ay on the boat. But it was too late. The "Emma Mary" 

 lifted herself on the crest of a wave, and as it passed, threw her 

 whole weight viciously on the stout rope and snapped it like 

 pack thread. And so our deep water explorations off Lamba^' 

 Head were brought to an untimeh' end with the loss of one of 

 our dredges and some 30 fathoms of rope 



We retreated to the smooth waters of the Sound, w^here we 

 lay almost becalmed until midday, the waj' on the boat being 

 just enough to permit of our making a few feeble scrapes of 

 the dredge in shallow water with no better yield than a solitary 

 specimen ot Dendrojiotus arboresceiis. Two o'clock found us off 

 Ireland's Eye, where the dredge was shot for the last time that 

 day in about 12 fathoms and brought up a single example of 

 the rather rare Sucker-fish, Lepadogaster biiuanilaUis. Soon 

 after 5 o'clock we made Kingstown Harbour and our fruitless 

 two days' cruise came to an end. 



October 26 and Novemijer 2.— Some shore-collecting 

 was done on these da3^s at low water near Bullock Harbour b}- 

 the writer of this report, who was fortunate enough on both 

 occasions to find there Adcsonia corriigata, an opisthobranch 

 new to Dublin and to east Ireland. It occurred on corallines 

 and dwarf sea-weeds, four specimens on the first date and 

 six on the second, the largest being one-eleventh inch in 

 length. Along with the Actseonia on the 2nd November were 

 found nine specimens of Rimcuia Hancocki^ the largest \ inch 

 long. 



No\':ember 16. — Messrs. Butler and Colgan made a second 

 lialf-day excursion to the Malahide River. Operations by row- 



