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the second meeting Robert Patterson read a paper on " Colour 

 and Markings in Nestling Birds," which suggested profitable lines 

 of research for workers during the ensuing Summer months. 



In Vertebrate Zoology nothing new has been recorded by 

 members during the year, but many valuable observations have 

 been made and notes taken ; and it is interesting to record that 

 W. A. Green has again found a living specimen of the green Tree- 

 Frog in Bananas imported from the Canary Islands. 



In Mollusca some striking discoveries have rewarded the 

 exertions of our members. Of these, the most important 

 undoubtedly, was the finding by J. N. Milne and A. W. 

 Stelfox of a freshwater shell new to science — Limncea prcetenuis, 

 Bowell — in a mountain tarn above Glengariff, Co. Cork. Full 

 descriptions and plates are published in the Irish Naturalist for 

 September, 1907, and March, 1908. The members mentioned 

 and R. Welch published in the same journal, as a result of the 

 Cork Week Excursion, a list of the L. and F.W. Mollusca of Co. 

 Cork, with a small area of Co. Waterford adjoining. In addition 

 A. W. Stelfox and R. Welch worked out the distribution of 

 another freshwater shell new to Ireland — Bythinia leachii — which 

 the latter embodied in his paper read before the Club, and 

 published with a map of the distribution in the Journal already 

 mentioned. As a result of specimens collected by these two 

 members of the non-typical Hyalinia ( Vitrea) ce/iaria, of 

 Murlough Bay, Co. Antrim, and other localities in Ireland, it was 

 shown by Mr. A. S. Kinnard, F.L.S., that the species was a new 

 one, and he named it Vitrea hibemica, sp. nov. In addition 

 A. W. Stelfox published (op. at.) a very complete list, revised to 

 date, of the L. and F.W. Mollusca of West Galway, with a portion 

 of East Galway fringing on Lough Corrib. This young worker 

 deserves great credit for the careful way in which his papers are 

 prepared, and for the County Division lists which accompany 

 them. The latter have not hitherto been used in Mollusca papers 



