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Tlie Irish Naturalist. 



April, 



IRISH SOCIETIES. 



^ ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Recent gifts include a Zebu Bull from the Hon. A. S. G. Canning, a 

 pair of Deer from Mr. R. O Callaghau, a Curlew and a Golden Plover 

 from Mr. R. Warren, two Bar-tailed Pheasants from Mr. A, R. Harris- 

 Temple, a Marmot from Mrs. Peterkiu, two dozen Brown Trout from 

 Mr. J. W. Lentaigne, twenty Pigeons, a Pheasant, and a Guinea-fowl from 

 Mr.. A. Miller, a Lapwing from Miss A. M'Donnell, and a pair of Bunt- 

 ings from Mr. E. Williams. 



A specially valuable gift has been made by the Duke of Bedford, com- 

 prising several Rheas and Emus, which have already reached the 

 Gardens. 



Some Golden Agoutis have been born in the cage occupied by those 

 animals in the Monkey House. It is hoped during the summer to turn 

 out some of these interesting animals into the Rodent enclosure. 



The refreshment-room at the Gardens has been re-decorated, and 

 aclditional kitchen accommodation provided. 



DUBLIN MICROSCOPICAL CLUB. 



February 8. — The Club met at Tvcinster House, Dr. R. F. Scharff, 

 President, in the chair. 



Prof. G. H. Carpenter showed eggs of the fly Pegomyia betcB laid be- 

 neath the leaves of Mangold. The characteristic ridged pattern on the 

 surface of the egg was pointed out, and the passage by which the 

 maggot, as it hatches from the egg, bores into the leaf-tissue^ where its 

 presence causes the well-known blisters. 



J. N. HAiyBERT exhibited examples of a mite, Rhizoglyphiis echinopiis, 

 found in great abundance between the scales of hyacinth bulbs by Mr. 

 W.F.Gunn. 



F. W. Moore showed one of the minute flowers of Biilhophyllwn 

 crenulatum, Ralfe, a new species which had recently flowered in the 

 Gardens at Glasnevin. It is a native of Madagascar. Its inflorescence, 

 a closely packed spike on an elongated rachis, brings this into the 

 davatum group. The individual flowers are small and brightly coloured ; 

 tlie sepals have very curiously serrulated margins. 



BELFAST NATURAL HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHICAL 

 \i SOCIETY. 



March 14.— SeaTon F. Miwgan, M.R.I.A., lectured on the "Cruise 

 around Ireland with the Royal Society of Antiquaries, June, 1904." 



