io8 The Irish Naturalist. October, 



1872, p. 661), was supposed to have passed into' the posses- 

 sion of Mr. H. Blake Knox. I have not been able to trace 

 this specimen. 



Specimens of the Night Heron (ZooL, 1866, p. 457), 

 Two-barred Crossbill (Ussher, " Birds of Ireland," p. y^), 

 and Honey Buzzard [Zool., 1868, p. 1478) were also missing 

 from the collection. 



In addition to the birds mentioned in this paper the 

 Blake Knox collection contained a very large number of 

 specimens less worthy of note, among which the series of 

 Puffins and Shags were particularly large. In closing this 

 paper, I would like to take the opportunity of expressing 

 my appreciation of the collection which, after many years 

 spent in the pursuit and observation of Irish sea-birds, the 

 late Mr. Henry Blake Knox amassed. 



Department of Zoology, 



Trinity College, Dublin. , . 



NEWS ITEMS. 



F. W. R. Brambeli. 



Our best congratulations are due to F. W. Rogers Brambeli, Ph.D., 

 of the Zoological School, Trinity College, a leading member of the Dublin 

 Naturalists' Field Club, for his brilliant success in being awarded the 1851 

 Memorial Post-Graduate Scholarship on the first occasion on which that 

 valuable prize has been open to competition in this country. The scholar- 

 ship is annually awarded in each of the self-governing dominions to the 

 miiversity graduate who shows himself best fitted for successful scientific 

 research. Dr. Brambeli has been awarded the scholarship for 1924 for 

 ills work on animal cytology and the determination of sex, evinced by a 

 number of papers that have appeared in different scientific journals. 

 Amongst these are " The Activity of the Golgi apparatus in the Neurones 

 of Helix aspersa [Journ. Physiology, vol. Iviii., no. 6, August 16, 19^3), 

 " Sex Reversal and Intersexuality " { Journ. R. Microscopical Soc, 1923), 

 " Sex-Determination in Birds " {Science Progress, in press), and some 

 important articles written in combination with Professor Bronte Gatenby 

 on " The Genitalia of a Crowing Hen " {Journ. Genetics, in press), and 

 kindred subjects. 



