1921. 



Margaret Greer Flood. 



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the Farnham collection of minerals she begged to be allowed 

 to make another search for rare minerals among the dust- 

 covered cases containing the remainder of the collection. 

 She found a good number and added them to those already 

 exhibited. Nothing was too irksome for her, and she 

 simply revelled in work. She was anxious to study and, 

 if possible, master some really difficult group of animals ; 

 and when I recommended to her the Tunicates, which had 

 repelled almost all zoologists by their unattractiveness, 

 she beamed with delight and at once carried off the litera- 

 ture on the subject to study it at home. I am sure she 

 would have succeeded in thoroughly mastering that puzzling 

 group of marine animals, for she would not shrink from any 

 difficulties. It was delightful to meet a congenial spirit 

 endowed with such fervour and eagerness to learn, and with 

 whom all work was a labour of love." 



Miss Flood was a member of the Dublin Naturalists' 

 Field Club, and some of the members recollect the charming 

 paper on the life in the pools by the seashore at Skerries, 

 which she read at one of the meetings last winter. 



A. Henry. 



IRISH SOCIETIES. 



DUBLIN MICROSCOPICAL CLUB. 



April 13. — The Club met at Leinster House, the President (H. A. 

 Lafferty) in the chair. 



Prof. G. H. Carpenter showed stages in the development of a 

 snowy fly {Aleyrodes sp.) and exhibited also the larva ol he Vine 

 Coccid [Pulvinaria vitis) from a Co. Dublin greenhouse, foi comparison 

 with the Aleyrodes larva. 



D. McArdle showed Plagiochila punctata, one of the rare foliose 

 Hepaticae. The interesting feature is the cell structure, the lumen of 

 the cells being quite clear with thick walls and angles of a brown colour 

 which give the leaves a punctate or dotted appearance, hence the name. 

 The leaves are roundish-oval in shape with the upper margin recurved 

 spinose ciliate, the lower margin is quite entire. The specimen 

 exhibited was found at Killarney. 



