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to the "Brown Trout in salt water," showing specimens 

 from Kerry, and mentioning the occurrence of the variety 

 in other estuaries of the western Irish coast; while in the 

 botanical section he exhibited the Irish-American orchid, 

 Spiranthes romanzoffiana, and read a communication on 

 the result of his fruitless hunt for Eriophorum alpinum by 

 Gurthaveha Lake. No doubt these four subjects were 

 selected partly with a view to keeping the West of Ireland 

 prominently before the meeting as an interesting field for 

 research. However, he only succeeded in getting his pro- 

 posed grant approved of in the Natural History section, 

 and was disappointed in the final result. 



BRITISH ASSOCIATION, EDINBURGH, 



August gth, 18^1. 



DEAR DR. CARTE, I am sorry to say that adverse influences have 

 prevailed, and we have lost our proposed grant; though it was carried 

 in the Committee of Section D, it did not pass the general Committee of 

 Recommendations. As in Dublin, the multiplicity of masters makes 

 things more difficult. . . . Your sincere A. D. C., and will be with you 

 on Saturday. 



This short visit to Scotland was followed by a second in 

 September, when he stayed two days (igth and 2oth) at 

 Donipace, the residence of Mr. Harvie-Brown ; made ac- 

 quaintance ^23rd) with Dr.Saxby ; and spent the day before 

 his return to Ireland (September 25th) at Balmuto with 

 Dr. Boswell. 



In the interval beween these two visits to Scotland he 

 had been on a fresh expedition to the west coast, the result 

 of a thirteen-day's sick leave, which he spent at Roundstone. 

 The entries in his journal, short as they are, tell their own 

 tale. " Salmon at the bridge," " Sea-birds on the shore," 

 " Craigga-more," " After the seals behind Inishnee," " To 

 beaches and rabbits/' " To Skiard Rocks and Kilkieran," 

 " Up to head of Kilkieran," " Corrig-a-Mahon and Eagle 

 Rock," " From Aran to Glasnevin," these are the prin- 

 cipal headings, so far as his diary goes. But a shelf in the 

 Dublin Museum, on which stand a number of bottles con- 



