1S96.] MARTKt. — Mitchclstown Cave 105 



It appears that there have never been found in it any bones 

 of animals no longer existing, and this fact is explained by 

 remarking the absence of any known large natural opening. 

 This is plausible ; nevertheless, for want of serious excavations 

 the question cannot be considered as decided. 



Peasants told Mr. Jameson, that on a hill, situated at about 

 400 yards from the entrance of the cave, there exists a natural 

 well (abj^ss), which had only been insufficiently explored, but 

 where, nevertheless, a current of water had been met with. It 

 would be a good thing to verify and complete this indication. 



Finall}^ the cave of Mitchclstown may still be considered 

 as a worthy object for interesting future work and research. 



BOTANY AT DUBININ UNIVERSITY. 



Notes from the Botanical School of Trinity College, Dutilln ; 



No. I, February, 1896. Printed at the University Press. 



In this brochure of thirty- four pages we have cheering evidence of the 

 vitality of botanical studies in Trinit}^ College. Two of the three items 

 of which these Notes are made up are contributed by Mr. H. H. Dixon, B.A., 

 Assistant to the Professor of Botany, and deal with some points of veget- 

 able physiology which the author has made the subject of observation 

 in the botanical laboratory of the College. The value of these contri- 

 butions, entitled : " On the Chromosomes of Lilium longifloyum,'" and 

 *' On the Nuclei of the Kndosperm of Fnttllaria imperialis,^' can only be 

 appreciated by the advanced student who is skilled in tracing those 

 mysterious stirrings of life which go on within the narrow confines of 

 the vegetable cell. The third item in the Notes, entitled: "The Her- 

 barium of Trinity College : a Retrospect " is from the pen of Dr. K. P. 

 Wright, University Professor of Botany. In this we find a strong human 

 element ; for the retrospect deals with the lives and labours of some 

 three generations of Irish botanists, in so far, at least, as these lives and 

 labours were effective in bringing together the important collection of 

 dried plants now preserved in the Trinity College Herbarium. After 

 all, the lives of men, as Mr. Dixon himself will cheerfully admit, stir us 

 more deeply than the lives of vegetable cells ; so that even a biologist 

 may be excused for taking a warmer interest in the Retrospect than in the 

 laboratory observations. 



