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22nd. Oct. 1951. 

Some Aphidii found a week (13th Oct.) ago in the purple Aphid so common on Cabbage in garden hatched out today (in box in sitting room, where we have had a fire in the evenings the last few days) = Aphidius brassicae Marsh 3♂︎♂︎, 6♀︎♀︎ mounted. 


End of October & up to 3rd Nov. 1951. 

Fine mainly dry weather continued with some nice sunny days & white fronts at night.

Marcus Graham came on 23rd to stay with us & to report on his visit to Lund, Sweden, where he studied many of Thomson's types of Braconids & especially those of the genus Chelonus & Ascogaster.

He spent a long time while here studying those in the Haliday Coll. in the Nat. Museum & my own collection.

He also superintended the packing up of the late Eugene O'Mahony's collection of Coleoptera & about 1,700 slides of fleas, lice & other ectoparasites which the O'Mahony family had presented to the Hope Museum at Oxford.  These collections Graham took back with him by air to London where Prof. Varley met him with his car & drove them to Oxford.  They left Dublin at 12 noon & reached Oxford the same afternoon on 31st Oct.


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4th Nov. 1951 (Sunday)
Great fall in glass & heavy rain all day, while gales reported all round British Isles, but no wind in Dublin till night of 4th-5th & then nothing to speak of.

5th Nov. 1951.
After a jam & some drizzle at 10 AM. (when thunderstorm occurred at Wicklow town!) a most perfect day, but rain again at night.

6th Nov. 1951.
Heavy rain all forenoon, drizzle in afternoon.  R. Dodder in heavy flood!  No wind.

7th Nov.
Mild with drizzle & gentle SE wind.
Petasites fragrans at Templeogue Bridge with one flower spike.  Many trees leafless after rain on 4th & 6th, but others quite green.  Tremendous flower on ivy & wasps still active.


15th November 1951.

A nice day, mile, with very hot sun almost the entire day, but rather strong S-SW. wind in afternoon, with rising glass after a small depression.

In afternoon took bus to Rathfarnham & walked via Butterfield Lane, Cosgrave's, back to bus Firhouse.  While traversing Butterfield Lane, at 2.50 P.M., & along hedge of the golf links Daisy saw a ♀︎ Bombus terrestris hovering over & then alighting on the low bank & sunning herself.  Having watched her for a minute