296 [Proc. B.N.F.C. 



Botany. — Collection of equisetums (horse-tails), barren 

 and fertile stems, Mr. N. Carrothers ; American plants, many 

 of them rare British species, Mr. George Donaldson ; two cases 

 of grasses, Mr. F. C. Forth, A.R.C.Sc.I. ; seed vessels of plants, 

 Mr. W. A. Green; '' Sapucaia " and ''Brazil" nuts, showing 

 mode of growth, Mr. John Hamilton; mounted plants col- 

 lected during the Irish Field Club Union Sligo Conference 

 week (July, 1904), Miss Kidd; collection of fungi, Mr. A. 

 Milligan; mounted plants collected during the past summer, 

 Mr. H. Lamont Orr; varieties of British ferns, Mr. W. H. 

 Phillips, President of the British Pteridological Society; 

 Blechnum Spicant var. tricayitatum, Porter, a new variety 

 discovered by exhibitor in Co. Down, and for which he ob- 

 tained certificate from the Pteridological Society, Mr. Wm. 

 Porter ; rare plants from Achill Island, rare plants from Fer- 

 managh Highlands, Glyceria festuccEfornus (a grass new to the 

 British flora, discovered by the exhibitor in County Down), 

 from new stations, Mr. R. Lloyd Praeger, B.A., M.R.I.A. ; 

 flowering plants from Cambridgeshire and Sussex, hygro- 

 scopic plant from the desert, Rev. C. H. Waddell, B.D. 



Zoology. — Collection of moths, Mr. William Allan ; birds' 

 nests and eggs, pied blackbird, Mr. John Cottney; marine 

 shells from Bangor, Mrs. Foster; rare visitors to Ireland cap- 

 tured in County Down, waxwing {Ampelis garrulus), rough- 

 legged buzzard (Buteo lagopus) thirteenth Irish specimen 

 recorded, turtle dove (Turtur communis), little auk (Mergulus 

 alle), Mr. N. H. Foster, M.E.O.U.; case of moths collected 

 during the past season. Rev. George Foster; collection of 

 echinoderms (sea urchins), Mr. W. H. Gallway; marine shells, 

 Mr. W. A. Green; trap-door spiders and their nests from the 

 Riviera, Miss Hill; British insects of the orders coleoptera, 

 hemiptera, lep'idoptera, hymenoptera, and neuroptera, Rev. W. 

 F. Johnson, M.A., F.E.S. ; tit's nest in centre of tree section, 

 Mr. J. H. Macllwaine; collection of butterflies and moths, 

 Mr. J. N. Milne; pond life (microscopic demonstration), Mr. 

 W. S. M'Kee; foreign land shells, Mr. W. F. M'Kinney; 

 trap-door spider and nest from South Africa, Mr. H. L. Orr; 



