PROCEEDINGS 



ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. 



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Sek. II., YoL. IV.] JULY, 1885. [No. 4. 



CONTENTS. 



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XIX. — A Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars. With Notes and Obser- 

 vations. By J. E. GoEE, M.R.I.A., F.E.A.S., Honorary Mem- 

 ber of the Liverpool Astronomical Society. (Notes added, 

 March, 1885), ■ . . . .411 



XX. — Report on the Botany of Lough Allen, and the Slieveanierin 

 Mountains. By Samtjei, Alexander Steavaet, Fellow of the 

 Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Curator of the Collections in 

 the Museum of the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical 

 Society, ........... 426 



XXI. — Report on the Flora of South -West Donegal. By Henry 



Chichester Hart, B.A., 443 



XXIL— Metamorphic Action. By G. H. Kinahan, M.R.I.A., &c., . 470 



XXIII. Preliminary Report on the Fungi of GlengarifF and Killarney. 



By G-eeenwood Pim, M.A., F.L.S., ..... 475 



XXIV. — On Vetnlina stalactites (0. S.) and the Skeleton of the Anomo- 

 cladina. By Professor W. J. Sollas, M.A., D.Sc. (Plates 

 III. and IV.), 486 



XXV. — Report on the Flora of Ben Bulben and the adjoining Mountain 

 Range in Sligo and Leitrim. By Richard M. BARRiNGTOiSr, 

 M.A., LL.B., F.L.S., and R. P. Vowell. (Plate V.), . . 493 



XXVI. — Note on a Geometrical Method of Investigating the Dynamical 

 Properties of the Cylindroid. By Robert S. Ball, LL.D., 

 F.R.S., Royal Astronomer of Ireland, ..... 518 



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