Report of Committee of Investigation on Bog-flow in Kerry. 507 
octavo. <A similar society exists in Sweden: it was founded in 
1885, and now numbers over 3300 members. It possesses experi- 
mental peat farms, where investigations are made on methods of 
cultivation; it employs a skilled agricultural engineer, who is 
occupied, travelling through the country, in giving information and 
advice to the peat farmers. A botanist is kept at work on the 
microscopical examination of peat, and a chemist to perform 
analyses. A “'Tidskrift”’ is published bi-monthly; the collected 
numbers for 1896 include 304 pages of letterpress. By means of 
this journal, yearly meetings, discussions, lectures, and exhibitions, 
the Society is earnestly engaged in diffusing information on all 
subjects connected with peat industry throughout the kingdom. 
There can be no doubt that in considering the agricultural 
question, the present Government has not overlooked the question 
of peat bogs; but we might take the opportunity to point out that 
a department, which has long been in existence—we allude to the 
Geological Survey of Ireland—has mapped the boundaries of all 
low-lying bogs in the country, though not of those which occur 
on higher ground. It would seem that an extension of the func- 
tions of this Survey, by which it could undertake a more thorougk 
investigation into the structure and geologic history of peat bogs, 
would materially assist its usefulness. 
SUIEN. PROC. R.D.8., VOL. III., PART Y. 20 
