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The Irish Naturalist, 
February, 
Wright (Edward Perceval). — Notes of a visit to Mitchelstowii Caves. 
British Association Report for 1857, Sections, 108-9. 1858. [Abstract.] 
Also Natural History Review, iv., pp. 231-241, 1857. [Present fauna.] 
Moore (Rev. Canon Courtenay). — The Mitch elstown Caves. Journal 
Cork Hist, and Arch. Soc, iii., pp. 1-5. 1894. [Description, with 
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Nat., iii., 25-35, plate i, 1895. Partly reprinted in Spelunca ; 
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of Mitchelstown Cave. Irish Nat., vi., 1897, 225-233, 257-8, pi. 2. 
On the Insect Fauna of some Irish Caves. Rep. Brit. Assoc., 1902, 
pp. 757-8. [Account of the present fauna, several examples of 
which were believed to be found nowhere else, until their identity 
with various cave insects with a wide European distribution was 
established. Specimens of some were obtained by Dr. Ivyster 
Jameson in the Speedwell Cavern, Derbyshire, in 1900.] 
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lyiscard, Cheshire. 
IRISH SOCIETIES. 
ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
Recent gifts include three Goldfinches, three Canaries, two Redpoles, 
a Bullfinch, and a Grey Linnet from Mr. W. J. Mills. A Great Ant- 
Eater has been purchased ; this fine specimen of an uncommonly 
interesting species has been placed in the inner room of the Monkey 
house, in a cage often occupied by our anthropoid visitors. A Tiger-cub 
from the Maherajah Gooch Beliar is on its way from India. 
DUBLIN MICROSCOPICAL CLUB. 
December 13. — The Club met at Leinster House. 
Dr. R. F. SCHARFF exhibited a jaw of the Arctic Fox ( Vulpes lagopns) 
which had recently been discovered in a cave near Enuis, in Co. Clare, and 
pointed out the character of the teeth by means of whi^^h this rare 
species is distinguished from the Common Fox. The Arctic Fox had 
not been previously known to have lived in Ireland. It is another 
addition to the Arctic mammalian fauna which once inhabited Ireland 
and of which only the Irish Hare has survived to the present day. 
Prof. G. H. Carpenter showed preparations of the head and jaws of 
the small millipede, Polyxenus lagurus, demonstrating the presence of a 
pair of maxillulse comparable to the structures already known to exist 
