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shell Trochus Duminyi ; but as regards the former, scientific 

 enterprise triumphed over natural difficulties, as will appear 

 subsequently. The members therefore strolled along the head- 

 lands in the direction of the extensive sand-dunes that stretch 

 northward to the mouth of the Erne. The Carboniferous Lime- 

 stone of which the rocks are composed, teeming with many 

 species of fossils, offered irresistible attractions to the geologists, 

 who were soon busy with hammer and chisel extracting 

 encrinites, corals, and brachiopods, and it is to be feared that 

 the loose stone walls of the enterprising Bundoran Beach Com- 

 mittee were not altogether safe from the ravages of the scientists. 

 Arrived at the sandhills, the party scattered, the various 

 members indulging in their favourite pursuits. They presently 

 met again at tea, when notes were compared. The botanists 

 reported a very poor flora on the sandhills, Euphorbia port- 

 landica being the only noteworthy plant collected. The 

 entomologists likewise had poor luck, but obtained Mtlanippe 

 galiata, Plutilla anniclatella, and some good species of micro- 

 lepidoptera, and a few beetles. Another member secured a 

 quantity of flood-rubbish near the mouth oi the Erne, very 

 rich in small land-shells, and reported having observed a flock 

 of a dozen fine Sheldrake {ladorna cornuta) swimming inside 

 the bar ; the marine shells collected offered nothing of special 

 interest. An ornithologist of the party exhibited a specimen 

 in the flesh of the Storm Petrel, which had been cast up dead 

 on the shore the day before. Tea was served at nine o'clock, 

 and shortly after ten an enterprising member of the party pro- 

 posed that a search should now be made for the Echinus hvidus, 

 which is so characteristic of the Bundoran rockpools, as the 

 tide would by this time be low. The idea was warmly taken 

 up, and a party of a dozen of the younger members started off 

 for the shore, armed with a supply of candles. They safely 

 reached the base of the cliffs south of the village, and with the 

 aid of lights the sea-urchins was found lining the pretty rock- 

 pools in profusion, and a large number of excellent specimens 

 were obtained, as well as examples of the local shell Irochus 



