206 The Irish Naturalist. June, 



DUBLIN NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB. 



Apr ii, 13. — Excursion to Seapoint. A very severe on-shore gale 

 with heavy rain prevented this excursion being a success as regards 

 numbers. In accordance with the views of the Committee that 

 excursions should not be abandoned, it was carried through by the Con- 

 ductor J. B. Butler, B.A., C. Murray, B.A., and J. de W. Hiuch (Hon. 

 Sec). The party started at 2 p.m. and some hours were spent in Mr. 

 Butler's aquarium examining the specimens, and when the tide went 

 down collecting from the rock-pools in the neighbourhood was indulged 

 in for some time. The party returned to town late in the evening. 



April 17. — The concluding meeting of the winter session was held in 

 the Royal Irish Academy, the President (C. B. Moffat, M.A.) in the chair. 

 In anticipation of the Triennial Field Club Union Conference to be held 

 in Cork in July, the business of the meeting consisted of a series of short 

 lectures (illustrated by lantern slides) on the geology, botany, and 

 zoology of that neighbourhood. Prof. CoeE dealt with the geology 

 and topography of the district, Prof. Carpenter with the zoology 

 and the problems of distribution in Southern Ireland, and R. LL 

 Praeger, B.E. (Hon. Sec. Field Club Union) with the Botany. R. LI. 

 Praeger then gave a short account of the Union and an outline of the 

 work of the Conference. R. J. Ussher, D.L-, supplemented Prof. 

 Carpenter's account of the zoolog3 r bya description of the rarer migra- 

 tory birds of Waterford and Cork. W. F. Gunn exhibited Azolla 

 caroliniana and gave an account of the method of fructification. H. W. 

 Doveton Dunlop was elected a member 



NOTES. 



BOTANY. 



Rhytisma Andromedse (Pers.) — A Correction. 



In the May issue of the Irish Naturalist I included the above species in 

 a list of Fungi new to Ireland. I am indebted to Dr. G. H. Pethybridge 

 for calling my attention to the fact that it had previously been recorded 

 as an Irish plant in a footnote to a paper by G. H. Pethybridge and R. LI. 

 Praeger on "The Vegetation of the District lying south of Dublin." 

 (Proc. R. /. Acad., vol. xxv. (B), No. 6. Dec, 1905.) It was also 

 exhibited subsequently before the Dublin Microscopical Club as reported 

 in Irish Naturalist for April, 1906. 



J. Adams. 



Royal College of Science, 

 Dublin. 



