1896.] Notes. 27 



The next undertaking of the Field Club Union will be a Directory of 

 Irish Naturalists, the publication of which should do much to facilitate 

 intercourse between Field Club members of similar tastes residing in 

 different parts of the country. The preliminary steps are being now 

 taken, and a printed form to be filled by persons wishing to be included 

 in the Directory will be shortly sent to all Field Club members and sub- 

 scribers to this Journal. 



NOTES. 



Col. G. T. Plunkett, R.E.,has been appointed Director of the Science and 

 Art Institutions in Ireland. He will therefore take up the late Dr. Ball's 

 work in Leinster House, and also continue his former duties as Secretary 

 to the Royal College of Science. 



Prof. Sollas, F.R.S., of Dublin, will leave in March for Sydney, to take 

 charge of an expedition that is being despatched to make deep borings 

 in a coral atoll. The scheme, which is supported by a strong scientific 

 committee, has been financed by the Royal Society to the extent of 

 ;^8oo ; and the Government are placing a gunboat at the disposal of the 

 party, to convey them from Sydney to Funifuti, in the Central Pacific, 

 which has been selected as the scene of operations. 



BOTANY. 



PHANEROGAMS. 

 Irish Hawkweeds, &c.— The following plants were collected by me 

 during the summer of 1895, and verified by Mr. F. J. Hanbury : — 



Hieracium Schmidtii, Tausch, Ballintoy, Co. Antrim ; //. nnworum, var. c, 

 microdadium^ Newtowncrommelin and Garvagh, Co. Derry ; ZT. iricum, 

 Fr., Lisoughter, near Recess, Co. Galway ; Cai-ex Goodenovii b. Jnncella, 

 Fr., and Scirpus ruftts, Schrad., Ballintoy, Co. Antrim. 



S. A. Brenan, Knocknacarry. 



ZOOLOGY. 



CRUSTACEA. 

 New Species of Copepoda from the South-west of Ireland. 



— In the Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, for November, 1895, p. 359, &c., Messrs. 

 T. and A. Scott describe with figures three new forms of parasitic 

 crustaceans obtained at Valentia by Messrs. W. I. Beaumont and F. W. 

 Gamble. Two of these, found on ascidians, are referred with some doubt 

 to the genus Enterocola and named E. hibernica and E. Beau7nontii. For 

 the third, which was found as a parasite on the nudibranch Lomanotus 

 genii, a new genus Lotnanoticola is proposed, the species being designated 

 Z. insolens. This last form shows great degradation, there being no 

 apparent segmentation of the fore-body, andtheantennules, antennae and 

 mouth-organs being absent. Except for the hindmost segment of the 

 abdomen with its two curious egg-sacs, the parasite was completely 

 buried in the body of the nudibranch, 



