I900.] Carboniferous Cephalopoda. 15 



congratulate the author on the result of hivS researches so far as he has 



made them known, snd we look forward with interest to the rest of his 



Monograph dealing with the many interesting coiled Cephalopoda — both 



NautiloideaandAmmonoidea — that have been found in the Carboniferous 



Limestone of Ireland. 



Org. C. Crick 

 British Museum (Natural History), London. 



PROCEEDINGS OF IRISH SOCIETIES. 



ROYAl. ZOOr.OGICAI. SOCIRTY. 



Recent gilts include a Barbary Sheep from the Marquis of Hamilton, a 

 Herring Gull from Mr. H. C. Hartnell. an Otter from Mr. C. Boyle, a 

 number of Rudd from Mr. F. Godden. a Baboon from Captain Warren, 

 a Giant Tortoise from the Hon. Walter Rothschild, a Sloth Bear from 

 Mr. S. T. Loftus, eleven Tortoises from Mr. A. E. Jamrach, and a Dotterel 

 from Mr. J. H. O'Connell. 



5,527 persons visited the Gardens in November. 



Dubinin Microscopicai, CIvUb. 



November 16 — The Club met at Leinster House. 



Mr. G. H. CarprnTP^R showed hotoiua brevicauda, a new species of 

 springtail from P'ranz-Josef Land. This interesting form will be shortly 

 described and figured in the Scientific Proceediugs of the Royal Dublin 

 vSociety. 



Dr. He:nrv H. Dixon exhibited coccospheres. These minute 

 organisms, the probable source of coccoliths, were found during last 

 summer in Valentia Harbour. It is remarkable that while coccoliths 

 are very abundant all round our coasts, coccospheres are extremely 

 scarce— so far, some half dozen only have been recorded by Dr. J. Joly 

 and the exhibitor from Weymouth and Dublin Bay. 



Mr. M'Ardi^E exhibited specimens of L'^pidozia Pearsoni, vSpruce, bear- 

 ing the male spikes. The specimens were found by himself and the Rev. 

 Canon Lett at Lough Duff, in the Brandon Valley, Co. Kerry, last May, 

 when collecting for the R.I. A. Flora and Fauna Committee. The species 

 resembles the pretty Lepidozia reptans. but has not the deep green colour 

 of that species. It is of a pale tawny green, more slender and more 

 elongated in growth, with more distantly placed leaves ; which are cloven 

 to beyond the middle into four to six subulate segments. The chief dis- 

 tinction is in the dioecious inflorescence the male t.pikes are terminal on 

 the lateral branches. Lepidozia reptans is monoecious, the male spike 

 springing from the underside of the stem— which is the normal position 

 on nearly every other Eulepidozia known to us, except Lepidozia Pearsoni. 

 This is the first record of the plant being found in Ireland. In North 

 Wales it was collected by W. H. Pearson, at Tyn-y-groes, near 

 Dolgelly, in 1877 and 1879. He has kindly verified the naming of this 

 rare hepatic, 



