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Southern, Stelfox, Miss Stephens, Ussher ; while among the 

 volunteers from across the water are J. S. Dunkerly 

 (Infusoria and Flagellata), P. E. Grimshaw (Diptera), E. 

 Heron-Allen and A. Earland (Foraminifera), H. Wallis 

 Kew (Pseudoscorpiones), Claude Morley (Hymenoptera), 

 James Murray (Arctiscoida and Rotatoria Bdelloida), Eugene 

 Penard and G. H. Wailes (Rhizopoda), Carleton Rea 

 (Mycetozoa), C. F. Rousselet (Rotifera), D. J. Scourlield 

 (Fresh-water Entomostraca), and W. M. Tattersall 

 (Crustacea). From the "Reports of Progress" of the 

 Clare Island work for 1909 and 1910 which have already 

 appeared in our pages, it is evident moreover that these 

 lists of authors do not by any means represent all the 

 workers who have been engaged in the district since the 

 survey commenced. 



Turning to the reports already published, or presented 

 to the Academy and now in the printer's hands, they give 

 evidence of the very great advance in many directions 

 which the publication of the series will bring about, as 

 regards our knowledge of the fauna and flora of Ireland, 

 and kindred subjects. In Halbert's paper on the water- 

 mites, for instance, eighty species are recorded. Of these 

 five are new to science, a dozen more are new to the British 

 Isles, and another dozen are now for the first time recorded 

 from Ireland. The new and rare species will be illustrated 

 in three large folding plates. Murray's report on the 

 Arctiscoida opens with the pregnant remark : " Irish water- 

 bears appear to have no history. I can learn of no records 

 previous to the commencement of the work of the Clare 

 Island Survey." Thirty-three species are now recorded, 

 five of which are new to science, and half a dozen more 

 previously unrecorded from the British area. From the 

 same writer's report on the Bdelloid Rotifers, we find that 

 up to the present the Irish list has stood at eighteen 

 species ; it now stands at sixty. Colgan's list of Marine 

 Mollusca numbers 243 species, and represents a great advance 

 in om- knowledge of the shells of the West of Ireland ; two 

 additions to the Irish fauna are included. The same 

 writer's " Gaelic Plant and Animal Names " supplies a 

 chapter on a very interesting subject. Much which has 



