Statistical Report 1935-1936 - Department of Education and Skills

o256ACQUISITIONS.NATURAL HISTORYBOTANICALSECTION.DIVISION.Specimen of Cephalosia affinis from Killarney; presented by Mr. D. A. Jones,.of Bristol, through Dr. Praeger.5{) Specimens of Commercial Woods of Australia; by Department of Forestryof Queensland, through Mr. B. A. McDonall, B.E., of Sydney.Two specimens of fossilised wood from Lough Neagh region; by Miss MaryMaguire, Motherwell, Scotland.Seven specimens of Mosses from Kerry; by Mr. J. B. Duncan, HonoraryTreasurer of the British Bryological Society.A Myxomycete from Rhodesia; by Miss G. Lister, F.L.S., Leytonstone,Essex.Two Fungi, parasitic on Dactylis glomerata, from Co. Fermanagh; by Mr. VI•.Colgan, Lisnaskea, Co. Fermanagh, through Dr. Praeger.Centrophyllum lanatum from Sydney Parade, Dublin; by Dr. Bewley.Cares Boenninghauseniana, funcus macer and Alchemilla alpestris affectedwith Uromyces Alchemillae; by Mr. J.. P. Brunker, 18 Grosvenor Place, Dublin,Specimen of Lycopodium inundatum from Offaly; by Mr. J. D. Lamb, Clara ..Offaly, through Dr. Praeger.Specimen of Butomus umbellatus and some Irish Mosses; by Prof. J. Doyle,D.Sc., University College, Dublin.Plantago Arenaria; by Mr. M. J. Gorman, B.Sc., University College, Dublin.Specimens of 53 South African Plants; by Mrs. J. McAfee, 44 CheminMoillebeau. Geneva.. Merulius lachrymans and samples of rotted wood; by ·Mr. Crothers, Dublin.100 American Plants in exchange from the Grey Herbarium of Harvard.University.Mammals.ZOOLOGICAL~ECTION.An almost complete skeleton of a male Giant Deer from Ballyscaddane, Co.,Limerick.Skull and antlers of Irish Giant Deer, also from Ballyscaddane; given byDr. Henry Stokes, Dublin:Portions of skull and antlers of Irish Giant Deer from the Rag River, Bel-.turbet; by the Office of Public Works, per Mr. W. F. McHugh.Part of skull and antlers of Irish Giant Deer from near Kilross, Co. Tipperary;Fragments of skull and antlers of Irish Giant Deer from Ballyneety, Co,Limerick.Portion of an antler of a Red Deer from the bed of a river near Mountmellick.Portion of a Red Deer's antler from Rathcahaun, Ruan, Co. Clare; by Mr..Paul Casey, Ruan. .Two heads of Indian Gazelle; by Captain Thomas, Belmont, Carlow.Frontlet and antlers of Wapiti Deer; by Mr. J. J. Hurley, Dublin.Three Black Rats and two Alexandrine Rats, caught on a ship in port ofDublin; by Corporationof Dublin, per Mr. Tannam (of Disinfecting Department).Skin and skull of a Brown Rat from Lagore; by Mr. J. Hyland.,Red Squirrel and an Irish Stoat from Big Lagore; Co. Meath; by Mr. J.Hyland.Two Field Mice and one House Mouse from Claremorris, Co. Mayo; by Mr..S. S. Harris, Claremorris.A House Mouse from Sutton, Co. Dublin; by Mrs. Kane, Sutton.Birds.A Starling, ringed as a nestling on 2nd June, 1934, at Rossitten, Kurische-Nehrung, East Prussia, from Nobber, Co. Meath.A Blackbird from Dollymount, Dublin; by Mr. E. O'Mahony, Dollymount..Pied Wagtail from Dublin street; per Office of Public Works Official.A buff-coloured variety of the Swallow from Emo Park, Leix; by Rev. P.G. Kennedy, S.J., Dublin.Peregrine Falcon from Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal; by Mr. Scott McD. Swan,.Ballyshannon.Sea Eagle, shot on Clare Island, Co. Mayo; per Royal Zoological Society ofIreland.A Bittern, shot near Athlone; by Miss E. K. Hodson, Athlone.A Brent Goose from Coole, Co. Westmeath; by Mr. P. Rowe, Coole.A Black-tailed Godwit from Tralee; by Dr. McElligott, Tralee.A Resplendent Trogon from South America; by Mr. A. Smythe, Bournemouth.Fishes.A Tench from Lough Ree; by Major P. P. Graves, F.R.E.S., London.An ambicolorate variety of the Flounder; by Mr. J. Gueret, Dublin.A Porbeagle, caught off Valencia, Co. Kerry; by Miss M. J. Delap.A Dragon Fish from Port Phillip, Melbourne, Australia; by Col. G. G. Delap.,A.M.S. (retired), Carrickmines,Insects.The second known Irish specimen of the Sawfiy A rge metallica from GlengarriffCo. Cork; by Mr. J. E. Flynn, Glengarriff.A Leaf-cutter Bee and its cocoon from Carrickmines, Co. Dublin; by Mrs.,Cerise M. Parker, Avoca School, Blackrock.A Wasp's Nest from Dublin house ceiling; by Capt. H. Neville Roberts.,Dublin.Two specimens of Beetle, Ptinus pectinicornis, from Dollymount, Co. Dublin ;.by Mr. E. O'Mahony, Dollymount.Two specimens of Beetle, Corymbites aeneus, from The Mullet, Co. Mayo ::by Mr. A. W. Stelfox.Male and females of the Solitary Wasp, Sphe» sabulosa, from sandhills on TheMullet, Co. Mayo; by Master George M. Stelfox. .Ova and nymphs of a tropical Stick Insect; by the late Mr. Henry Lucas..Dublin.Other Invertebrate Animals.A "Portuguese Man-of-War" from Tragumina, near Skibbereen, Co. Cork;.by Mr. A. W. Sweetnam, Skibbereen, per Department of Fisheries.Another specimen of "Portuguese Man-of-War" from The Hook, Co.Wexford ;.by Light-keeper V. Whelan, Hook Tower Lighthouse.A specimen of Ianthina sp. containing the animal from Roundstone, Co.Galway; by Mr. G. P. Farran, M.R.LA.An abnormal shell of Cyprina islandica from Portmarnock Strand, Co. Dubliri..by Miss Patricia Stevens, Dundrum, Co. Dublin. .Specimen of the rare Nudibranch, Lomanatus portlandicus, from east coast ofIreland; transferred from Fisheries, per Mr. G. P. Farran.Collection of unmounted insects, mollusca and other objects, collected onBalearic Islands by the late J. D. D. La Touche; by his son, Mr. C. La Touche,.M.Se., University College, Dublin.257