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1929.

2nd Jan. 1929. Heard Mistle Thrush singing in Kenilworth Road & Hedge Sparrow outside Meyfield.
3rd Jan. 1929. Walked from Greystone to Bray round Bray Head with George & collected some beetles, bristle tails &c. along old railway line S. of the head.
6th Jan. Sun on hills above 800ft. Walked via Pine Forest, down Glencullen to Ennisberry & home by bus.
Saw Primrose & one hazel with [[male symbol]] catkins open in Glencullen.
13th Jan. A fine day with N & E winds : sunny in late aft. only. Worked S. cliffs of Howth, DU. for Collembola & Bristletails for Womersley & in  shaking [[underlined]] Silene maritima [[/underlined]] clump obtained many small Proctotrypids & a few mymarids. [[underlined]] Litus [[/underlined]] 
20th January. Walked from Donabate to Rogerstown Creek & thence round coast outside Portrane asylum & via "the Island" to Malahide Ferry. Collected Bristle-tails & Collembola on cliffs for H. Womersley & amongst [[underlined]] Silene maritima [[/underlined]] shook out two very small Braconids - [[underlined]] Aphidius [[/underlined]] sp.?
While waiting for train showed Brunker & Palmer [[underlined]] Carex axillari [[/underlined]], station by ry. riding S. of Malahide station. Here the plant grows at foot of cliff of quarry amongst its parents [[underlined]] C. vulpina [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] C. remota [[/underlined]].

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A warm muggy day with  misty rain all day! 
3rd. Feb. 1929 A.S.W. Walked from Dundrum via Ticknock, NW. shoulder of Two Rock Mt., to summit of Tibradden; thence to Rockbrook & home via Mt. Vernes Road to Ballyboden.
Under cairn stones on Tibradden took several beetles, one springtail & one [[female symbol]] Ichneumon.
On N. side of road near Mt. Vernes saw [[underlined]] Equisetum hyemale [[/underlined]] in Praeger's station.
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10th feb. 1929. Train to Greystone where picked up motor at 1.0pm. Drove to foot of Glen of the Downs, where stopped for lunch in old sand-pit (not before observed : very nice bee ground).
Sun shone all day from a cloudless sky & was quite hot, but wind from NE. very cold. Plenty of [[underlined]] Diptera [[/underlined]] & Beetles ([[underlined]] Aphodius [[/underlined]] sp) on the wing; but only hymenoptera seen was one [[virgin female symbols]] [[underlined]] Apis mellifera [[/underlined]] on gorse in old sand pit. After lunch drove to Ballyhenry & then home. Still sunny but nothing seen, except March marigolds in swamp at foot of Kilmartin Channel.
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14th Feb. 1926.  A cold day, with strong E. wind; but blue sky & sunny. In aft. drove to Slade of Saggart & then to Cloghleague Glen (upper Lippy) & home. Mountains all white with snow & nothing seen.
15th. Feb. 1926.  After 4 days frost heavy snow on night of 14th - 15th; snow continued to fall all day on 15th.

Transcription Notes:
Dates of 14th Feb. 1926 and 15 Feb. 1926 at the end of the second page should of course by 1929, but I left them as written.-thomasc