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may be practicable, collections relating to agricultural, zoological, 

 and geological subjects, and procuring scientific communications, 

 uniting local with general interest. 



" Resolved, — That we recommend that a Sub-Committee be also 

 appointed by the Local Council, to whom shall be committed the 

 care of enlisting, through the medium of the Local and Metropolitan 

 Press, and by other such means, the national interest in this im- 

 portant undertaking. 



" Resolved, — That the Local Council be requested to organize 

 committees of correspondence in London, Dublin, Belfast, Limerick, 

 Waterford, and with whom communications maybe opened connected 

 with this subject ; and that a Committee for sending invitations to di- 

 stinguished scientific men, foreigners and others, be also appointed. 



" Resolved, — That the Local Council do request the Agricultural 

 Association of this county to appoint a Committee from their body 

 to co-o]ierate with the Local Council in its arrangements for rendering 

 the visit of the Association permanently and practically useful. 



" Resolved, — That it is desirable to hold during the meeting of the 

 Association an exhibition of the manufactures of Ireland, including 

 the tabinets of Dublin, the linens of Belfast, and the lace-fabrics of 

 Limerick, and that the Local Council be recommended to make the 

 necessary arrangements to eflfect so important an object. 



" Resolved, — That a request be made to the Committee of the Art- 

 Union not to open the Exhibition of Pictures next year until the 

 meeting of the Association, and that it be not confined to the pro- 

 ductions of resident artists alone, but be open for the exhibition of 

 works of eminent artists, living and dead, connected with Ireland." 



EPILOBIUM VIRGATUM, FRIES. 



In a review of Dr. Deakin's ' Florigraphia Britannica,' it is stated 

 (Ann. N.H.ix. 340) that that botanist had found the Epilobhim vir- 

 gatum (Fries) in the neighbourhood of Lincoln, and I have now the 

 satisfaction of recording, that during the summer of 1S4'2 I gathered 

 it myself, on the sides and bottoms of deep ditches in peat bogs, in 

 several spots above the High Force in Teesdale, Durham ; and also 

 near Caerlaverock (in the Lochar Moss), Dumfries-shire. I likewise 

 obtained specimens at Ventry, in the county of Kerry, in July 1841. 

 This plant closely resembles E. tetragonum (Linn.), from which it is 

 most easily distinguished by its scions, which spring from the lower 

 joints of the stem, not the root, are very slender, and do not termi- 

 nate in a rose-shaped cluster of leaves ; those of E. tetragonum being 

 short, rather stout, spring directly from the root, and produce a ter- 

 minal rose- shaped cluster of leaves. It is probable that E. virgatum 

 is not an uncommon plant in peat mosses. It may be as well to add, 

 that the same character distinguishes E. alsinifolium from E. alpi- 

 num. — C. C. B. 



HABITS OF TARSIPES SPENSER^. 



Some months ago I described a new animal from South Australia 

 sent me by Governor Grey. Mrs. Grey has sent me the following very 



