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27th Feb. 1946.  A beautiful sunny day, after a hard frosty night. In afternoon rode to Killeen & walked up Grand Canal to Clondalkin & rode home. A very strong cold wind from W. made things unpleasant, but sun very hot in shelter. Nothing of interest seen.
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28th Feb. 1946.  Another beautiful day, after another hard frost at night. Took 11.30 bus to Landsdown Rd. & Dalkey train to Dalkey terminus. Then walked to Sorrento & spent nearly 3 hours in hot sun between the railway & sea   S. of Sorrento. Collected a few Bristle-tails [[?]] for Dr. Carmel Humphries (Nat. Univ.); mollusca seen : --
Helix nemoralis, aspersa, [[?]] (caperata) very common; virgata, hispida; ants : -- Formica fusca running about on the bolder-clay cliffs along path; Lasius flavus 1 ☿ under stone above railway; but saw no sign of Walls's colony of Tetramorium caespitum (See sketch map) discovered here (somewhere along one of the paths) a couple years ago. Kept a look out for woodlice, especially the rare species found on S. cliffs of Howth Hd., but saw only Porcellio scaber & Philoscia muscorum. Among plants seen the alien Senecio cineraria very 


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28.2.46, cont.  Killiney Bay, cliffs, &c., cont.

conspicuous & quite a lot of Inula crithmoides in usual places; noted a very round-based, fleshy, Polygala by path, on face of boulder-clay (=           ) which brought home to try & grow; saw Cochlearia danica in flower, a few daisies, several dandelion, gorse, & one wild carrot almost in flower, but no sign of much spring growth, exce[t the carrot & a few patches here & there; many Diptera on pile of rotting sea-weed in one spot but no hymenoptera seen. Came back to tram over Killiney Hill & got home at 5.20 almost sun-burnt!

1st to 3rd March 1946.  Hard frosty nights & fine sunny days

4th March 1946.  Awoke to find a little snow covering house tops & garden, but a thaw set in almost at once & by noon all had gone except in shade in garden. Late at night a drizzle started, after a dull cold day.

5th March.  Thick rain & drizzle all morning with strong cold SE & later NE wind; no rain in afternoon but lowering black clouds filled with English smoke cut off most of the light.

6th March.  A fine cold day with E. wind & very hot sun in afternoon. In afternoon walked from W. end 

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