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20.8.50, cont.  S. Prison, Lug., Co. WI., cont.

After reaching plateau about 5 P.M. came round head of S. Prison, crossed summit of Lug by cairn & down usual path - all in thick mist & strong wet wind from SE. Near the cairn heard the cry of a bird which I feel certain was that of a Dotterel, which Daisy & I had met with in Scotland in 1939 & again in 1947; also saw at least two Ring Ouzels in S. Prison but no adult male seen. On return to car - about 1/4 mile above the reservoir by the Little Slaney (which feeds the Artillery Camp) I had the misfortune to sprain my ankle badly & walked to car (1 mile) & drove home with difficulty. Home about 9 P.M.  


A few days later J.P. Brunker called & gave me details of where Sedum rosea grows in S. Prison on Lug.

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Lug 3,036 ft
Cairn
Alpine rill
Earthern scarp
S
W.W. = waterfalls
Hymeophyllum peltatum
Moraine
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S = position of Sedum at base of cliffs in crack in vertical band of black rock [[right margin]] Due to black vegetation (? alga) not rock! [[/right margin]] on cliff, visible from summit of Lug. & in line with scarp over which tumble several small waterfalls in wet weather.


210.

August 1950.

Following the accident to my right ankle on 20th, I was confined to house with my leg up for remainder of the month! & most of early September.


September 1950.

On 16th Sept. Mr. H.B. Herrington of Keene (formerly of Newburgh) Ontario, Canada, arrived to stay a week with us. He is a Minister in the United Church of Canada & formerly a Methodist. For some years he & I have corresponded about Pisidia, on which genus of mollusks he appears to be the leading N. American authority. He came to Dublin with the aid of a grant from the Ohio State Museum, U.S.A., on receiving from me in 1949 an offer to hand over to him my collection of Palaearctic & other Pisidia so as to help him in his attempt to correlate the species found in N. America with those in the Old World.

During his stay with us - from the 16th till evening of 22nd Sept. we spent most of the time going over my collection & packing it up. I have given him all my material except a small selection of British & Irish specimens which I am keeping for reference for the present & a few unimportant specimens which I have kept for sentimental reasons. Two collections at present