326 The hish NaUiralisL [Dec, 



PROCEEDINGS OF IRISH SOCIETIES. 



ROYAI, ZOOT^OGICAI. SOCIETY. 



The Council of the Society desire to express their deep regret at the 

 death of the Rev. S. Haughton, F.R.S., in whom Ireland has lost an 

 illustrious scholar and a distinguished zoologist. They would wish also 

 to put on record their sense of the inestimable services which he 

 rendered to the Society, during the long period in which he acted as its 

 Honorary Secretary and afterwards as its President, and to give expression 

 to the deep sympathy which they feel with Dr. \Vm. S. Haughton and 

 Miss Haughton in their heavy bereavement. 



Recent gifts include a male Yak from the Hon. A. S. G. Canning, a 

 Barn Owl from Dr. Patton, and a St. Kilda Sheep from Mrs. Dames 

 Longworth. A female Japanese Ape with baby, and an Angolan Vulture 

 have been bought. 



9,630 persons visited the Gardens in October, 



Dubinin MiCROscopiCAiy Ci^un. 



Octobp:r 21.— The Club met at the house of Mr. \V. N. Allen, who 

 proposed on behalf of Dr. W. Frazer the following resolution, which was 

 seconded by Mr. A. Andrews, and passed unanimously: — 



" The Members of the Dublin Microscopical Club desire to place on 

 record their deep sense of the loss they, in common with all who take 

 an interest in Irish Natural History, have sustained by the death of Mr. 

 William Archer, F.R.S. He was one of the original founders of the 

 Club, and for upwards of forty years acted as its Hon. Sec. He was a 

 constant contributor at the monthly meetings, as well as the author of 

 many important memoirs in the Proceedings of the Club." 



Mr. An,KN showed drawings of Corallinaceae. 



Mr. David McArdi^K exhibited specimens of an interesting liverwort, 

 Lejeuma Holtii, vSpruce, which he recently collected at Tore Waterfall, 

 Killarney. This rare Hepatic was first found by Mr. Holt, of 

 Manchester, in the same locality in 1885 ; therefore its rediscovery last 

 month by Mr. McArdle when collecting for the Flora and Fauna 

 Committee of the Royal Irish Academy is interesting, as it has not been 

 found amongst the numerous collections of Hepaticoe made by him in 

 various parts of Ireland. It differs from every European Lejeunca in the 

 female flowers being borne on very short branchlets which normally 

 put forth no sub-floral innovations such as exists in all our other species. 

 In size it resembles S. Jiava, Swartz, or luxuriant L. serpyllifolia^ Libert, 

 but difl'ers from both by the pale reddish tinge of the foliage, which is 

 most remarkable in the leaves of the lower half; this character was well 

 shown in the specimens under the microscope. The large pear-shaped 

 perianth, sharply keeled, so as to appear five-winged, is also a unique 

 character [Journal of Botany^ vol. 25, p. 35, 1887, excellent description and 



