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Report of the Zoological Section. 



During the Summer Session the members of this Section 

 attended the regular Club excursions, and studied the fauna 

 of the districts visited, but the best day's result in faunal 

 distribution work was obtained on 2nd July, when the combined 

 Sections visited Armagh. The work done by members on these 

 excursions will be found in the Proceedings, while that accomplished 

 at the Rosapenna Conference is detailed in the Irish Naturalist 

 for September, 19 10. 



Two meetings of the Section were held during the "Winter 

 Session. At the first of these, on 7th December, several members 

 detailed the results of their researches during the preceding year. 

 The second meeting, on 1st March, was devoted to a discussion 

 suggested by the President's inaugural address on the dispersal 

 of animals and plants. This discussion proved interesting and 

 instructive, and it is intended that further meetings will be 

 convened during next Winter at which similar problems may be 

 brought forward. 



Since our last report, the following two important papers by 

 members of our Section, dealing with zoological distribution, have 

 been published : — "A List of the Land and Freshwater Mollusks of 

 Ireland," by A. W. Stelfox, with a Bibliography by R. J. Welch ( J ); 

 and "The Woodlice of Ireland, their Distribution and Classifi- 

 cation," by D. R. Pack Beresford and Nevin H. Foster (-). 

 Although these papers have only been issued about two months 

 numerous additional county records have since been obtained in 

 both groups, and it is interesting to report that the latter include 

 two species of Woodlice new to Ireland. 



(Signed) 



Joseph Maxwell, Hon. Sec. of the Section. 



(1) Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, vol. XXIX., Section B., 

 No. 3. 



(2) /did, No. 4. 



