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NATURE NOTES 
solution. The Rhizopoda, though mostly exceedingly minute, are for this reason 
of the greatest interest to the student of life ; and the Ray Society does well, in 
this the two-hundredth anniversary year of the death of the great English 
naturalist from whom it is named, to begin the issue of a systematic work dealing 
with the British representatives of this group. A brief introduction deals with 
the life-history, distribution and method of collecting ; but Mr. Cash expressly 
disclaims any special study of the physiology of the group : his object is mainly 
descriptive ; whilst Mr. Hopkinson, the Secretary of the Society, furnishes a 
Chlamydomyxa Montana, x about 400. 
(From “ The British Freshwater Rhizopoda.”) 
copious synonymy and is later to add a bibliography. An examination of the 
British localities recorded for each species at once shows how inadequate as yet 
has been the collecting of these lowly organisms. Many more workers are 
required throughout the British Isles before we can be said to know anything of 
their local distribution ; and nothing is more likely to lead to such more extended 
study than the existence of such a descriptive account as that of which this is an 
instalment. Some thirty-nine species, with their varieties, are described, belong- 
ing to seventeen genera, and these descriptions are illustrated by sixteen excellent 
lithographic plates, nine of which are in colour, together with thirty-two illus- 
trations in the text. One of these latter we are permitted to reproduce. 
The Irish Society for the Protection of Birds. Second Report, 1905. 
Though as yet a very young society, the Irish Bird Protection Society can give 
a very good account of its stewardship. Its roll of members is not yet large, nor 
has it control of large funds ; but it employs a watcher to guard the Terns at 
Malahide, has issued a variety of leaflets, is undertaking educational w'ork, and has 
organised a public lecture. We wish them “ more power to their elbow.” 
Annual Report of the National Association of Audubon Societies for 1905. 
Well may Mr. William Dutcher, the President, be proud of the Report which 
he had to offer. With thirty-six State Andubon Societies, maintaining six reser- 
vations or bird refuges and a number of paid wardens, this newly incorporated 
Association fully justifies its existence. The Report is illustrated with some 
interesting bird photographs. 
The Nature-Study Review for November contains several excellent articles, 
notably a very timely warning against the reckless guess work of the newer 
