Vol. xvH., No. 4. 



April, 1908. 



CONTENTS. 



Some County Dublin Holothurians — Nathaniei. Cot^gan, M.R.I. A., 



The Determination of Sex in the Woodcock — R. F. Scharff, 

 Ph.D., F.L.S., . . .... 



Irish Societies; — 



. Ro3'al Zoological Society, . . . . . . 



Dublin Microscopical Club, .... 



Dublin Naturalist's Field Club, 

 Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, 



Notes : — 



Irish Algje. 



Mosses of Co. Dublin.— Rev. Canon H. W. LETT, M.A.— D. M'Ardi^k, 



Erophila praecox & Vicia Orobus, — Corrections. — R. hi-,. Praeger, 



Oxyria digyna in Co. Clare. — A correction. — Miss M. C. Knowles, 



Notes on Irish Birds, .. .. .. .. .. 



Sea-gulls in the City o! Dublin - W. J. Wii^i^iams, 



Morning Flight of Gulls across Central Scotland.— J. A. HarviE 

 Brown, F.R.S.E., . . 



Morning Flight of Black-headed Gulls.— R. J. Ussher, D.I,., 



Great Shearwaters & Fulmars. — R. J. USSHER, D.Iv., . . 



Pink-footed Goose in Co. Roscommon. — Hon. H. G. O. Bridgeman, 



Mayo Birds, . . • • 



Coastal Features in Co. Waterford, 



The Soil Geology of Ireland, . . 



Reviews : — 



W. C. M'Intosh's " British Annelids."— (R. Southern, B.Sc), 

 M.J, Nicholl's " Three Voyages of a Naturalist, "(G.H.C.), 

 W. P: Py craft's " Book of Birds."— (G.H.C.), 



Obituary : 



Rev. W. R. I JNTON, . . 

 RoRERT Pride, 



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