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PROCEEDINGS OF IRISH SOCIETIES. 



RoYAiv Z001.0GICA1, Society. 



Recent gifts iuclude a Parrot from Mr. H. D. Harris, four Pea-fowl 

 from Dr. H. C. Tweedy, an Indian Leopard from Mrs. M. Stuart, a Mona 

 Monkey from Mr. J. L. D. Meares. A Llama and two Puma cubs have 

 been born in the Gardens. A Jackass Penguin, a Bonnet Monkey, a 

 Wapiti Deer, two Golden Paradoxures, a Porcupine, and a Goliath Heron 

 have been bought. 



6,000 persons visited the Gardens during November. 



Dubinin MicrqscgpicaIv Ci^ue. 



November 18. — The Club met at the house of Mr. G. H. Carpenter 

 who showed adult and larval specimens of a new genus of marine bug 

 allied to Halobates which he had received from Mr. J. E. Duerden, by 

 whom they had been collected in Kingston Harbour, Jamaica. 



Prof. G. Cole showed a section of gneissoid rock from the rock w^est 

 of Carrickmore, Co. T3'rone, formed by intrusion of granite veins into a 

 diorite. The latter is converted locally into a granular hornblende 

 aphanite, flakes of which are taken off and partly absorbed by the in- 

 vading granite. The specimen was collected for comparison with the 

 true gneisses of the moorland to the north of Carrickmore. In Sultan- 

 bane a " gneiss " occurs, the true nature of which is still obscure, and 

 which may prove to result from parallel intrusions like the small example 

 of Carrickmore. 



Mr. Greenwood Pim showed a remarkable fungus which almost en- 

 tirely covered the surface of leaves of Cherry Laurel collected last year 

 at Cappagh, Co. Waterford, by Prof. Johnson. The plant consisted of 

 (apparently) conceptacles, each furnished with one or more slender necks, 

 strongly resembling some form of Giiomonia, but careful and repeated 

 search failed to show any spores, so that identification was ver}'^ difficult. 

 Mr. Pim has since been informed by Mr. G. Massee that he considers 

 the plant to be G. erythrostoma, Auersw., not previously recorded from the 

 British Isles. It causes much injury to cherry trees in Germany. 



Mr. Pim also showed Nectria satiguinea from a Beech trunk at Avondale, 

 Co. Wicklow, collected on the recent Dublin Field Club excursion. 



Prof. T. Johnson showed a preparation and a specimen of a truffle, 

 Tuber cesthnim, received for identification from Borrisokane, Co. Tipperary, 

 This fungus fruit was found in large numbers under beech trees. Truffles 

 have been gathered for years for culinary purposes under Cherry Laurels 

 on Lord Iveagh's property in Co. Dublin. 



Mr. McArdIvE exhibited specimens oi Frullania tamarisci, L. var. atrovi- 

 rens, Carrington, which he found growing on rocks within the spray of 

 Tore Waterfall, Killarney, in September last, when collecting for the 

 Flora and Fauna Committee of the Royal Irish Academy. This curious 

 form of the brightly-coloured type-plant, which was also exhibited, is of 

 an indigo green colour, the leaves are ovate, remarkably apiculate and 

 imflexed at the apex. 



