94: 
Mr. Archer desired to record the occurrence near Kylemore, 
County Galway, of the remarkable and curious organism of 
“ Labyrinthulean ” affinity, first detected in, as yet, but a single pool 
only in the County Westmeath (and briefly referred to in the minutes 
of the Club in this Journal, vol. x, n. s., p. 303); this station at a 
distance of close on 150 miles from the first at which it was found, 
thus widely extending the limits in Ireland of this form. It is pos- 
sible, indeed, now that we know this production so far as to recognise 
it when seen, that it may be more common and widely-spread than 
we might suppose from its having been encountered in as yet but 
the two localities ; these are, as is seen, however, widely remote. It 
would be of little value to expatiate here, further than has already 
been done, without figures, upon this singular form, beyond a mere 
record of a new locality, as to do so would require more space than 
could be available in Minutes like these, as well as reference to Cien- 
kowski’s account of the marine forms, to which the present offers so 
much resemblance, of an opportunity to do which, however, Mr. 
Archer hoped to avail himself on some future occasion. 
19th May, 1870. 
Dr. John Barker exhibited a piece of apparatus contrived by 
him for the purpose of catching atmospheric dust for microscopic 
examination, consisting of fanners enclosed in a tube, worked by a 
handle at the side, these destined to carry removable slips of glass, 
moistened with glycerine, in order to retain the deposit. 
Dr. Barker also exhibited examples of an CEdogonium, doubtless 
(Edogonium punctato-striatum (de Bary), distinguished by the cell- 
wall being marked by spiral striz of a dotted character, these finely 
and closely set; these seen in an empty cell, through and through, 
the upper and lower striz being nearly in focus simultaneously, pre- 
sented a somewhat decussate appearance. The examples now shown 
were not in fruit, rendering it impossible to say whether this 
characteristic of the filament itself accompanied any speciality of the 
fertile condition. 
Mr. Crowe presented examples of Stephanosphera pluvialis, 
accompanied by Uvella, from the Bray- Head Station—always pretty 
objects—the former interesting, as no further station had as yet 
been found in Ireland. Surely it cannot be restricted to that single 
locality, however ? 
Dr. Moore exhibited examples of a confervoid growth of a reddish 
colour, growing in tufts on the apices of the leaves of Hypnwm 
straminewm, and having much of the appearance of a distinct alga, 
the moss with these appendages presenting a remarkable appearance. 
Notwithstanding, however, their seeming want of affinity with the 
moss upon which these tufts of filaments were attached, and the 
striking constancy with which they were confined to the extremities 
of the leaves, it is most likely they were truly protonematous 
growths, probably derived from the Hypnum itself by germination 
of spores, or—from the chances against the spores always alighting 
at the ends of the leaves—could they, on the other hand, be terminal 
