126 The Irish Naturalist. [May, 



Mr. Welch is steadily setting matters right as regards 

 Galway ; but there is much to be done nearer home. It will 

 be all the better done if we can systematise and divide the 

 work. The robust possessors of whole-plate cameras may 

 select the nobler landscapes and the broad aspects of our 

 mountain-contours ; while more lightly equipped artists may 

 deal with this or that boulder, or with the details of important 

 rock exposures. 



A permanent series of prints, enlarged to a uniform size, 

 and printed in platinum, ma}" ultimately be formed ; and it is 

 possible that the Dublin Field Club may be willing to give 

 financial aid towards their production. I^antern-slides may 

 also be prepared, and will form a valuable series for exhibition 

 at the winter meetings. At present, Mr. Bowling has re- 

 corded the junction of granite and Ordovician rocks at 

 Killiney ; Mr. Welch, the submerged forest-bed at Bray ; Mr. 

 Preston, of Grantham, has a fine series of the promontory of 

 Portrane ; and others doubtless exist, merely awaiting collec- 

 tion. For my own part, I have taken, in lantern-plate size 

 only, fairly complete series of the Balrothery esker, and of 

 the folded strata at lyOUghshinny. The latter still deserve the 

 attention of any camera that can get at them. 



I now wTite, through the Irish Naturalist, to ask for the 

 help of any persons who would be willing to join in the pro- 

 jected survey. If such will be so good as to communicate 

 with me at the Royal College of Science, Dublin, before Friday^ 

 May 'jth, I can then call a meeting in Dublin for Mo7iday, 

 May loth, at 5 p.m., at which we can form our plans and 

 discuss the division of work for the coming outdoor season. 



