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covered here by Dr. George Fogert}- in 1897, but looked for in 

 vain since. We enjoyed Canon O'Brien's hospitality that 

 evening, and returned to lyimerick by the night mail. 



Early next morning Dr. G. Fogerty took me to another 

 quarry, adjoining the railwa}', where a number of strange 

 casuals were to be found, but the rich list of the Carey's Road 

 quarry practicall}^ covered the ground. I caught the midday 

 train to Dublin, and the detecting of Linaria viscida, 

 Diplotaxis imcralis, and Arcnaria temiifolia on the railway at 

 Killonan finished for a time my botanizing in I^imerick. 



RECENT I.ITERATURE. 



The Fauna and Flora of Valencia Harbour on the West 

 Coast of Ireland [Proc. Royal Irish Acad., 3rd sen, vol. v., 1900.) 



In the spring of 1895. Mr. W. I. Beaumont, Mr. E. T. Browne, and Mr. 

 F. W. Gamble visited Valencia HarlDour for the purpose of investigating 

 certain groups of marine invertebrates — " Medusse, Turbellaria, 

 Nemertea, and Nudibranchiata — which groups had received ver)' little 

 attention from previous workers on the west coast of Ireland." Their 

 efforts were so successful that in 1896 they again visited Valencia, and 

 were accompanied this time b}^ three additional naturalists, viz., Prof 

 F. F. Weiss, Mr. M. D. Hill, and Mr. A. O. Walker. This valuable paper 

 gives an account of the results obtained in these two visits, and of a 

 series of tow-nettings taken from October, 1896, to December, 1898, by 

 the Misses Delap, of Valencia. 



The various groups of animals collected and the Algae have been 

 examined, and reports drawn up by competent authorities. Perhaps the 

 most interesting of these reports is that on the Medusae by Mr. Browne, 

 who remarks that the medusoid fauna of Valencia Harbour is now 

 better known than that of any other locality in the British area, and gives 

 figures of the radial canal system of that interesting Medusa, Dipleurosotna 

 iypicum, Boeck. A large number of species are recorded which are new 

 to the Irish Fauna, and two species new I0 science are described, viz., 

 Obelia wz^ra (from the Medusa form), by Mr. Browne, and an unnamed 

 species o{ Luc em aria, of \^llich Mr. Beaumont promises us shortly a more 

 detailed description. The few references to the previously known dis- 

 tribution of the species on the Irish coast are not^ however, always quite 

 accurate. Litcernaria cainpanulata, stated not to have been previously re- 

 corded from the coast of Ireland, happens to have been recorded from 

 Bray, Miltown-Malbay, and the west coast in Thompson's Natural History 

 of Ireland, and from Kerry by Dr. F- P. Wright in Proc. Dublin Univ. Zool. 

 and Bot. Assoc, vol. i. Idalia Leachii, which " does not appear to have been 

 recorded from Ireland," i§ mentioned by Mr. i\.lder in Jeffreys' '' British 

 Conchology'' as having been found in Birterbuy Bay b)- Mr. Barlee. 



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