Vol. xxvii., No. 6. May, 1918. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Irish Fossil Molliisks — R. Lloyd Praeger . . . . 69 



Irish Societies : 



Royal Zoological Society — Belfast Naturalists' Field Club .. 74 



Dublin Microscopical Club . . . . . . . . 75 



Cosmos Club , . ' ' . . . . . . . . . . 76 



Obituary : 



William Hugh Patterson , . . . . . . . . . 76 



Limnaea glabra in Ireland — J. Wilfred Jackson, F'.g.s. 



— With Note by R. A. Phillips . . . . 77 



Notes : 



Natural History /Societies in' Deiry and Cork — R! Ll. 



Praeger . . , . . . . . . . . . 79 



Scarcity of the Fieldfare and Redwing^ — W. M. Abbott . . 79 



Woodchat-Shrike on Migration obtained at Tuskar Rock — 



Professor C. J. Patten, m.d. . . . . . . . . 79 



Meaning of " Swiney " and " Thriceeock " — J. H. Gurney . . 80 



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