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dawn in a downpour of rain." Such exposure cannot, 

 under the circumstances, have failed to aggravate the harm 

 already done ; though, after a few hours' repose on shore, 

 he went fishing in Keel River, and for the next fortnight 

 continued his outdoor occupations, unwilling to concede 

 that he felt the worse for his adventure. On shelves in the 

 Natural History Museum are a number of bottles con- 

 taining several different species of parasites* found on the 

 sunfish, and labelled "Achill, 1873." His diary records 

 his dissecting this sunfish, and finding its parasites, on 

 Saturday, July 26th, ten days after the affair at Inishkea. 



He was now alone, Mr. Dillon having been obliged to 

 leave Achill on the i8th. But on the 2gth a welcome 

 visitor arrived in the person of Mr. R. M. Barrington, who 

 stayed a few days, and noticed how far from satisfactory 

 his friend's health really was. Mr. Barrington, on leaving 

 Achill, lost no time in making Mr. Robert Warren aware of 

 the truth, with the result that on August 6th (to quote the 

 diary) : " On return (from fishing) I found my friend 

 R. Warren come to meet me and take me back to Moyview 

 for a visit." To Moyview he went, and had scarcely 

 arrived when the threatened illness fell upon him. 



* Tristoma coccinea, Lepophtheirus nordmanni, Cecrops latreillii, Echthro- 

 galeus orthagoriscus, &c. 



