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THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION AT DUBLIN. 
barrier between the professional scientist and the amateur 
was for the good of scientific progress. That the one should 
be ever discouraged by the other seemed almost incredible, 
and yet one had to confess that this happened again and 
again. 
The second meeting took place on September 8th, 
Professor Grenville Cole presiding. 
Professor G. B. Carpenter read a paper on “ The Survey 
of restricted areas with regard to the Fauna and Flora.” 
He desired to give a short account of what they had done 
and what they proposed doing in Ireland. He wished to 
impress upon local societies the important results that might 
be obtained by the systematic survey of local areas. He 
mentioned especially the survey of Lambay Island which had 
been carefully carried out within the last few years. The 
results were surprisingly good. They found five animals 
new to science, twelve new to the Britannic fauna and eighty 
animals and plants new to the Irish fauna and flora. One of 
the principal objects of the survey was to trace the migration 
of animals and plants on the east coast of Ireland. He also 
referred to the survey that was being conducted by the 
Dublin Naturalists’ Field Club of the North Bull. The 
interest of that research was due to the fact that the sand 
bank was only a century old and the object of the survey was 
to ascertain what species occupied new portions of land. 
He mentioned that Clare Island was about to be surveyed, 
and he trusted that his remarks would have the effect of 
inducing local societies to have such surveys in Great Britain 
made as complete as possible. 
During the discussion I took the opportunity of mentioning 
Mr. Robert Gurney’s Laboratory on Sutton Broad, where 
a good deal of research work had been carried on by Mr. 
Gurney himself and by Mr. F. Balfour Browne who has 
unfortunately left Norfolk, but the mention of whose name 
was received with much satisfaction by Prof. Carpenter. I 
also said that there were charts and maps of the Broad 
district, and that any one wishing to make use of the 
laboratory could have board and lodging at moderate terms. 
