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obverse a portrait of Linnaeus, and on the rev^erse the words 

 ^' Trail award " and the name of the recipient in a wreath. The 

 first presentation will be made at the forthcoming Anniversary 

 Meeting of the Linnean Society, and it gives us great pleasure to 

 announce that the first recipient of this award is our President, 

 Prof. E. A. Minchin. 



The Hon. Secretary said that with the death of Edward 

 Percival Wright one of the links, connecting the old school of 

 naturalists with the modern students of biology, was severed. 

 Prof. Wright was born in Dublin, 1S34. During the twelve years 

 succeeding his matriculation in 1854, he published a series of 

 papers on the fauna and flora of the S. and W. coasts of Ireland. 

 In 1858 Wright was appointed lecturer in zoology and Director 

 of the National History Museum of Trinity College. In 1866 he 

 published in conjunction with T. H. Huxley an account of the 

 fossil vertebrates from the Jarrow Colliery. In 1867 Wright 

 went to the Seychelles Islands, bringing back an important 

 collection of animals and plants. Shortly after his return he was 

 appointed to the chair of botany at Trinity College, and held that 

 position until he resigned in 1904. He arranged and indexed the 

 valuable series of plants belonging to the College. In con- 

 junction with M. Studer he reported on the Alcyonaria of the 

 Challenger expedition. 



It may interest members of the Q.M.C. to know that Prof. 

 Wright, although not a member of the Club, was one of the 

 founders of the Dublin Microscopical Club, and in this he was 

 associated with Mr. Archer, whose researches are well known to 

 some of our members. Having met for some time informally, 

 this Club appears to have received a proper constitution and rules 

 in Dec. 1860, five years before the origin of our Club. 



Mr. C. Lees Curties presented to the Club twelve dissections and 

 preparations of insects mounted by the late Mr. Frederick Fitch, 

 who joined the Club in 1867. The presentation was accompanied 

 by a cabinet portrait of Mr. Fitch, who had been well known to 

 the older members of the Club. The thanks of the Club were 

 voted to Mr. Curties for these gifts. 



Mr. A. E. Hilton read a paper on "The Life-phases of 

 Mycetozoa." 



The thanks of the Club were unanimously voted to Mr. Hilton 

 for his paper. 



