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May I also press the claims of Entomostraca, those 

 beautiful minute Crustacea which abound in all our still 

 waters, and of which little is known yet ? I hope shortly to 

 put on record my own three years' investigations, which have 

 been amply and richly rewarded. I believe that in no part 

 of the United Kingdom has so long and interesting a list been 

 compiled in the time, I need not say that any experience 

 I have so far acquired will be heartily at the service of any 

 fresh students of the group. 



In reviewing the additions to our knowledge made during the 

 last twelve months, the first event in importance is the publi- 

 cation of Mr. Praeger's work, " Irish Topographical Botany." 

 Who could have thought it possible that the valuable second 

 edition of" Cybele Hibernica " could have been so soon supple- 

 mented by such a mass of additional material ? Truly only a 

 modiern Manannan Mor Macl^ir (the giant Goblin who was said 

 to stride around Ireland in twenty-four hours), could so swiftly 

 traverse the country, and sample its productions. Some impor- 

 tant botanical finds might be referred to, but as a summary by 

 Mr. Praeger has been recently read before the Club, it is 

 unnecessary. The only remark that I would venture to make 

 is, that the discovery of Sisyrhymchhmi angustijolimn on the 

 shores of I^ough Erne suggests a difiiculty that if its 

 indigenous distribution has been so wide, how is it that its 

 existence in Cork, Kerry, Galway, and Fermanagh has 

 been so long overlooked ? The seeds have a remarkable 

 vitality, and the plant spreads rapidly. Is it possible that 

 they may have been carried down by floods and deposited ou 

 the shores ? 



Of Lepidoptera we have some remarkable captures by 

 Captain Donovan, who, returning from foreign service to his 

 home in Co. Cork, devoted his leave to his old pursuit, adding 

 numerous remarkable captures to his earlier records. The 

 occurrence of a single specimen at Timoleague, Co. Cork, of 

 Ctmdlia absiiithih which is both rare and local in England, 

 reported by his brother in 1900, has been followed by the 

 capture of another imago, and numerous larvae, which proves 

 its indigenous origin. On the other hand, his find of Cticcullea 

 vertjasci in the larval and perfect state points to a successful 

 immigration, for its very conspicuous caterpillar, seen in some 



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