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had elaborate apparatus to record muscular contractions. Professor 

 Lorraine Smith, M.D., showed the bacilli of diphtheria, anthrax, and 

 tuberculosis. W. D. Donnau, M.D., exhibited living sjjecimens of 

 Melicerta andi Flosatlaria \ Cecil Shaw, M.D. , nerve cells; John Tennant, 

 M.B., the Plasmodium of malarial fever. Miss M. K. Andrews exhibited 

 sections of trach5^tes and rhyolites from County Antrim, showing also 

 the rocks from which the slides were cut. The exhibit of Joseph 

 Wright, F.G.S., attracted much attention. He showed a collection of 

 foraminifera from the Pleistocene clay of St. Erth, Cornwall ; some of 

 the species are extremely rare, and Mr. Wright is again to be con- 

 gratulated for the discovery of several forms which are new to science, 

 which he exhibited. A. Speers, B.Sc, exhibited a number of rock 

 sections and sands by the microscope; John Brown, crystals from the 

 granite of the Mourne Mountains ; N. Carrothers, a collection of 

 mounted plants ; G. M'Lean, a large number of mounted seeds; J. H. 

 Davies, Elatim Hydropiper. lately discovered in the Lagan Canal ; also 

 Solamun nigrum, the Black Nightshade, from near Lisburn. The seeds of 

 Elathie Hydropiper were exhibited by W. Gray, M.R.I. A. At various other 

 tables exhibits were made by Professor Symington of hand-lenses 

 for low-power work; H. Gore Cuthbert, terminal cells of Colkie 

 pisistigma from Castlegregory •, Professor T. Johnson, Slime-fungi ; J. 

 Vinycomb, book-plates ; John Adams, fresh rare plants from County 

 Antrim ; L. M. Kwart, beetles and large grasshoppers, collected in the 

 Ligurian Riviera, 189S ; G. H. Carpenter, B.Sc, the nest oi Atypits pkens. 

 Dr. ScharfF and Mr. Welch also exhibited specimens of Mysis relicta 

 which they recently dredged in Lough Neagh. 



At nine o'clock the President, Rev. C. H. Waddell, made a few 

 remarks on the objects and aims of the Club, after which the lights were 

 lowered and a lantern display given. All the lantern slides were illus- 

 trative of the Club's excursions during the past summer. William Gra)- 

 described the local excursions. W. J. Fennell dealt with the local 

 excursions and the Irish Field Club Union's excursion to Kerry, 

 followed by J. St. J. Phillips on the same excursion. 



Dublin Naturalists' Field Club. 

 October 18.— The Opening Conversazione of the Winter Session was 

 held in the Royal Irish Academy House. In spite of the very unfavourable 

 weather a large number of members and their friends were present. It 

 needed only a very casual inspection to see that the work of the Club 

 was well represented in various branches of natural history by the 

 numerous contributions by different members. Additional interest was 

 o-iven to the meeting by the presence of several members of the Belfast 

 Naturalists' Field Club, including the President, Rev. C. H. Waddell 

 M.A., B.D., Miss S. M. Thompson, and Mr. R. Welch. The President, 

 R. Lloyd Praeger, B.A., B.E., demonstrated a series of lantern slides 

 prepared by R. Welch, J. Fennell, and J. St. J. Phillips, illustrating 

 features in County Kerry, visited by the Irish P'ield Club Union in July. 

 This exhibition was followed later by one by H. J. Seymour, B.A. (Hon. 



