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wholly or in part thirteen small explanatory memoirs of the various 

 extensive districts which he had examined, accompanied by several 

 illustrations from his own pencil. 



Amongst other results of his scientific observations may be men- 

 tioned communications to the Natural History Society of Dublin : 

 " On the Botany and Marine Zoology of Clare," " On the Mammalia 

 of the West Coast of that county," " On the Little Auk taken alive at 

 Athlone," "On Asplenium ruta-muraria," "On flights of Swans seen 

 in Eoscommon and Galway, winter of 1863-4," and " On the 

 occurrence of Hymenophyllum Tunbridgense in county Longford, and 

 stations of Gystopieris fragilis in the (Irish) Midland Counties." In 

 March, 1859, he discovered (and recorded in the proceedings of this 

 Society) for the first time in Ireland, the lesser horse-shoe bat ; and 

 in company with the late Dr. J. E. Kinahan explored various Irish 

 Natural History localities, the results of their labours forming 

 interesting papers in the Proceedings of this Society. 



He paid a good deal of attention to the meteorology of the places 

 where he resided, and a paper by him " On a storm (called the 

 Prince Consort Storm) which occurred on Thursday, October 29th, 

 1863, at Ballinasloe," was read before the Eoyal Irish Academy in 

 the following month. 



Being so much employed in Ireland, he had not many opportunities 

 of extending his researches in other directions, but during short 

 periods of leave of absence he made visits of observation to Scotland, 

 Germany, Sweden, and Norway. Having returned from the latter 

 country but a few months since, he intended to produce papers with 

 illustrations containing his geological and botanical observations, 

 illustrated by collections and striking sketches of physical features, 

 etc. This design has been interrupted by his untimely death, at 

 the age of 36, which has deprived science of an energetic and 

 accurate observer ; the Geological Survey of an able assistant, and 

 left a widow and many friends to deplore his loss. 



At his residence, near Glasgow, on the 17th January, James 

 Smith, of Jordan Hill, P.E.S., F.G.S., &g., &c., late President of 

 the Geological Society of Glasgow. We shall give a notice of this 

 eminent and veteran geologist in our next number. 



We regret to record the demise of a valuable scientific contempo- 

 rary, "The Dublin Quakterly Journal of Science," edited by 

 the Eev. Professor Haughton, F.G.S., etc., of Trinity College, 

 Dublin. We have frequently noticed this work in our Magazine, 

 and are extremely sorry to learn from the Editor, that it will not be 

 published in future. 



A New Journal of Comparative Anatomy, etc., is announced to 

 appear shortly, edited by Professor Newton, and Mr. J. W. Clark, of 

 Cambridge, and Dr. E. Percival Wright, of Dublin. 



