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the beginning by snow lying on the ground, but this soon 

 passed away, and a good hst of the later kinds was made, 

 including no less than thirty species new to the Irish flora. 



The last visit of the season was made by Prof. Patten, 

 who crossed to the island on December 27 to spend a week 

 in stud3''ing the winter avifauna. 



Reviewing generally the work of 1910, very substantial 

 and satisfactory progress has been made, in spite of an 

 unfavourable season, which was, on the whole, cold and 

 stormy. Many of the groups which were hanging back 

 last year, such as Birds, several orders of Insects, Lichens, 

 and fresh -water Algae, have been extensively studied or 

 collected, and in many other groups new ground lias been 

 broken. The list of animals or plants not hitherto recorded 

 from this country has now assumed large proportions, and 

 many of these arc of much interest. Tlie work in a number 

 of groups has now reached or approached completion, and 

 it will be possible to terminate the field-work at the end 

 of the present year hy vigorous collecting and observing. 



Dul:.lin. 



SOME NOTES FROM THE WEST COAST. 



BY A. R. SANDERSON AND C. A. CHEETIIAM. 



The first week in August of last year was spent in Donegal, 

 with headquarters near Killybegs on the shore of Donegal 

 Bay. Perhaps the most interesting flowering plants noticed 

 were Sisyrinchium anccps (in two situations — one, as before 

 mentioned, near Fintragh, and the other on a small headland 

 about two miles from Killybegs). Since first finding this 

 plant in Donegal we have had the opportunity of seeing 

 specimens from the United States, and we were both struck 

 with the remarkable general similarity of the specimens 

 from America (identified as S. gramineum of Curtis, and 

 5. anceps of Edition VI., Gray's New Manual of Botany, 

 Handbook of flowering plants and ferns of Central and 

 N.E. U.S.A.), but differing from S. angustifoliiim, Mill. 

 (Gra^^'s Manual. 7th Edition) in hnving mucli sliorlcr bracts. 



