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PROCEEDINGS OF IRISH SOCIETIES. 



Royal ZoologicaIv Society. 



Recent gifts include a Snake from Dr. E. J. M'Weeney, a Jackdaw 

 from Mr. G. Kinahan, a pair of Foxes from Major S. Bruce, a Kestrel 

 from Mr J. Hunter, a Seal from Mr. R. M. Fleming, and a West African 

 Python from Mr. J. K. Egerton. Two Golden Agoutis have been born in 

 the Gardens; while two Golden Eagles, two Mandrills, two Burmese 

 Apes and four Sooty Mangakys have been bought. 



12,380 persons visited the Gardens in September. 



Cork Naturalists' Field Club. 

 October ii. — A conversazione was held in the School of Art in 

 conjunction with the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. A 

 large number of exhibits were on view, including many objects of much 

 historical interest contributed by Robert Day, butterflies by W. Humble 

 Johnson, jelly fishes by the Misses Delap, botanical specimens by E. B. 

 Hughes; J. L. Copeman (President), was in charge of microscopes lent 

 by a number of members. Mr. R. Welch, of Belfast, contributed a fine 

 series of lantern slides. At the annual meeting of the Archaeological 

 Society, which was held during the evening in the lecture theatre, the 

 President of the Field Club gave an account of the Club's work during 

 the past year, and announced that during the coming winter under the 

 Field Club Union lecture scheme, Dr. Alcock, of Dublin, would read a 

 paper on bats, and Mr. Praeger would give an illustrated account of the 

 recent Field Club Conference at Kenmare. 



NOTES. 



In Science Gossip for October will be found a short article on Field Club 

 work in Ireland, by the Editor, Mr. Carrington, a propos of the 

 Kenmare Conference, illustrated by a reproduction of one of the 

 illustrations which appeared in our September number. 



A detailed natural history survey of the long sand-bank known as the 

 North Bull, in Dublin Bay, recently undertaken by Messrs. Praeger and 

 Halbert, is turning ovit unexpectedly interesting from a zoological point 

 of view, as this apparently inhospitable spot has already yielded several 

 additions to the Irish fauna. 



The classical locality of Portrane, the Ordovician Mecca of the Irish 

 palaeontologist, is being considerably altered owing to quarrying 

 operations in the limestone, connected with the building of the new 

 asylum in the neighbourhood. 



Dr. H. Lyster Jameson is working through the winter at the Naples 

 Biological Station, where he occupies the British Association table. 



