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The I fish Naturalist. 
November. 
fusion of flower. Hypericum hirsutum and Agrimonia 
odorata flourish, but are not interesting in the garden. 
Inula salicina from Lough Derg is quite a weed, making an 
extensive network of underground stems from which arise 
a grove of annual flowering shoots. Scrophularia umhrosa 
from the Liffey grows quietly, producing seedlings each 
year. My soil is too dry for Wahlenhcrgia hcderacea, and 
perhaps also for Teucrium Scordium, which has not grown ; 
but curiously enough Car ex Pscudo-cyperus, mostly found 
in very wet places, grows, and has even seeded itself. 
Lastrea Thelypteris also, is making headway in a particularly 
dry spot. Thymus Chamaedrys is very showy in the 
garden, and a white form from Killough, in Co. Down, 
makes a fine snowy carpet. Colchicum autumnale from 
Kilkenny has too much leaf and too little flower to be a 
valuable accession in the garden. The rare Lastrea remota 
from S.E. Gal way does well in half shade. Glyceria 
festucaeformis, from Strangford Lough and the vShannon, 
stood for a year, and produced seedlings, but the ground 
was too dry for it, and it died out. 
Dublin. 
IRISH SOCIETIES. 
ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
Recent gifts include a Hoolock Gibbon from eleven members of the 
Council, a Galago from Dr. A. Merrin, a Brown Bear (Chinese Turkestan) 
from Captain Bury, a Rabbit from Mr. S. Gibson, a Hooded Crow from 
Mr. W. Eddison, a pair of Pigeons from Mr. G. Mitchell, a Ring-Dove 
from Mrs. Barry, a Wood -Pigeon and a Grass Parrakeet from Mr. S. 
Leonard, two Peacocks, a Peahen and Chicks from Mrs. Lyster Smythe, 
and a Sparrow-hawk from Mr. J. Duggan. Many gifts of fruit and 
vegetables for feeding the animals have been received ; owing to the 
present high prices of food and the reduced receipts of the Society on 
account of the war, such gifts are most acceptable to the Council. 
The Hoolock Gibbon is a remarkably fine specimen, very tame and 
able to perform many clever tricks. Its arrival makes it possible for 
visitors to see, for the first time in Dublin, all four types of Anthropoid 
Ape together — Gorilla, Chimpanzee, Orang and Gibbon. It is indeed 
doubtful if such an assembly has ever been found in any menagerie. 
