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Oestrelata carMim, Carte.^ This Petrel (known in Jamaica as the " Blue 

 Mountain Duck ") lives in burrows in the mountains, and, owing to the 

 introduction of the Mongoose, is stated to be in danger of becoming 

 exterminated. 



A. R. N. 



REV. S. A. BRENAN. 



Samuel Arthur Brenan, B.A., who died at his rectory at Cushendun, 

 Co. Antrim, last January, at the age of 72 years, was a botanist of con- 

 siderable ability, and a close observer of nature. During a long residence 

 in the Glens of Antrim, he acquired a very complete knowledge of the 

 northern flora, and to a less extent of the fauna. He was not a scientific 

 writer, and his published work consists of a few notes contributed to the 

 Journal of Botany and to the Irish NaUir-alist. He was the finder oi Hiera 

 siwn tridenfahini at Marble Arch, Co. Fermanagh, which still remains 

 its only Irish station ; and he enriched our knowledge of the Antrim flora 

 with new stations for several of its rarer plants. 



R. Lr.. P. 



EDWARD A. L. BATTERS. 



The death of E. A. L. Batters, B.A., LL.B., F.Iv.S.. at the premature 

 age of 46 years, has put a stop to the career of one of the most distin- 

 guished of British algologists. and one the bulk of whor>e work still lay 

 before him. With great energy he combined a keen eye and a highlj- 

 critical perception ; and when to these qualities a position of inde- 

 pendence is added, the way seemed clear for a long and fruitful study of 

 ihe large and difficult group which he had selected for research. He 

 had only just begun to make the acquaintance of Ireland as a collecting- 

 ground for his favourite plants. He promptly accepted an invitation to 

 take part in the investigation of the fauna and flora of Lambay, the 

 results of which were published in this journal last year, and as the result 

 of a week spent on the island in April, 1906, he contributed a very re- 

 markable list of over 200 species, no less than 20 of which had not 

 previously been recorded from Ireland, some of these being species of 

 great rarity. His loss will be deeply felt by Irish as well as by English 

 botanists. 



R. I.I.. P. 



Proc. Zoo I. Soc. Lond., 1866. 



