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Cork in July last. He said a large number of special lantern 

 slides had been prepared for this night, the slides being grouped 

 into four divisions — Geology, Botany, Zoology, and Archaeology — 

 and in addition views would be shown of the different places 

 visited during the week. Certainly the work done and the new 

 records made by the Northern contingent reflected the greatest 

 credit on the individual workers. Mr. Nevin H. Foster, M.B.O.U., 

 Vice-President, first took up the group of the Terrestrial Isopods or 

 Woodlice, and mentioned the interesting fact that of the 17 species 

 which had been recorded as found in Ireland, 8 species were noted 

 during the Conference week. Many of these animals were more 

 brightly coloured than the Northern forms, this being, as a rule, a 

 characteristic of the Southern fauna. Mr. Foster had prepared 

 slides of the different species of this rather curious and pretty 

 group, which evoked loud applause from the audience. In 

 addition to the above subject Mr. Foster took up the botany of 

 County Cork, and showed slides of some of the more notable plants. 

 The President, Mr. Robert Patterson, F.L.S., next gave his 

 observations on the birds of Cork, illustrating his remarks by 

 throwing on the screen very many beautiful slides of different 

 species of birds. Seventy-five species were observed during the 

 week, none of them being new records, the time of the year the 

 Conference was held in, however, being the very worst season for 

 ornithological observations ; a more suitable time being June 

 instead of mid-July. The Old Head of Kinsale was the home of 

 countless numbers of birds, the cliff face, stacks, and sea being 

 literally covered with Herring-Gulls, Shags, Kittiwakes, Great 

 Black-backed Gulls, Puffins, Razorbills, Terns, and Guillemots. 

 Up to 1845 there were recorded from the County Cork 165 

 species of birds, and in 1900 this number had increased to 225. 

 This result was mainly due to better observation and also the 

 lightship notes. Mr. Patterson wound up his remarks by 

 mentioning, in connection with the remains of Lemmings recently 

 found in the Buttevant caves, that the bones of both the Norway 



