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PROCEEDINGS OF IRISH SOCIETIES. 



RoYAi, ZooLOGiCAi, Society. 



Recent gifts include a Peregrine Falcon from Mrs, Crabbe, and five 

 Lizards from Mr. A. Hillas. A pair of Bactrian Camels have been im- 

 ported from the Kirghis steppes. A litter of Cape Hunting puppies have 

 been born in the Gardens, but unhappily did not long survive. 



2,839 persons visited the Gardens in December. 



Dublin Microscopicai, Ci^ub. 



December 16.— The Club met at the house of Dr. M'Weeney, who 

 showed slides and cultures from a case of septicsemia in calves. The 

 micro-organism belongs to the group of hsemorrhagic septicaemia, and 

 appears to be new. 



Prof. Grenvii,i.E C01.E showed calcite-granite from lyime Hill 

 north of, Pomeroy, Co. Tyrone. This remarkable rock, described by 

 Mr. Jos. Nolan in the Memoir of the Geological Survey, seems to be one 

 of the ordinary granites of the district which has become locally charged 

 with abundant calcite. This carbonate has replaced much of the felspar, 

 and now appears in masses interlocking with the quartz. The rock has 

 even been burnt as a local source of lime. 



Mr. Greenwood Pim showed Hydmim oetraceuni, Pers., collected last 

 year at Cappagh, Co. Waterford, by Prof. Johnson. It is one of the 

 resupinate forms, forming a golden skin on dead sticks. The spores 

 are so minute that it might be readily taken for some species of Cortkhim, 

 but a hand lens at once shows the spring hymenium characteristic of 

 the genus Hydnum, 



Prof. T. Johnson showed a preparation of Tuber dryophilum, Tul., of 

 which two species had been received from Mr. Biggs, of Borrisokane, 

 Co. Tipperar}'. This truffle, apparently not before recorded for Ireland, 

 was found growing with Tiiber ccstivum under beech trees. The exhibitor 

 thought the fungus might be an Elaphomycesy but it had been identified 

 at Kew as T. dryophilum. 



Mr. McArdi,e exhibited both male and female specimens of a pretty 

 olive-coloured Radula which he collected last September at Tore Water- 

 fall, Killarney. Its nearest congener is R, voluta^ from which it is 

 abundantly distinct, in cell structure, branching, and above all in the 

 lobule which is nearly half the breadth of the superior lobe on which it 

 lies flat, and forms a sharp angle ; also in the long amentee Which occur 

 both terminal and lateral. Further investigations are necessary, and it 

 is essential that it should be carefully compared with specimens of 

 R, Lindbergiii Gott, and R. Carringioniiy Jack., before naming it. 



