274 Dublin Natural History Society. 



E. Dennes, Esq., F.L.S., Secretary. The President then delivered 

 an address, in which he expatiated on the advancement the Society 

 had made since the last year, and gave a brief sketch of the pro- 

 gress of Botanical Science for 1837. 



DUBLIN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



We have received the first annual report of the above-named As- 

 sociation, established in March 1838, "for promoting the Investi- 

 gation of the Natural History of Ireland," and were gratified to see 

 the attempt made to institute a society of this character in the me- 

 tropolis of Ireland. It already consists of one hundred and thirty- six 

 members, and a museum and library have been founded. The rules 

 are very ample, consisting of thirty-eight articles, which a little 

 further experience in their wording may perhaps condense, while the 

 chief aim of the society is stated to be " undivided attention to the 

 study of the natural history of Ireland by forming a standard collec- 

 tion of species ;" and the reading of papers at the evening meetings, 

 *' when a free and unrestrained communication of facts would be en- 

 couraged." The report above alluded to is unassumingly drawn up, 

 and relates rather to statistics than to the transactions of the meetings. 

 It is to be continued annually, we trust in the form of an address to 

 the members ; and we would recommend a little detail being entered 

 into of the proceedings of the bygone year, both as a useful sum- 

 mary to the members themselves, and as valuable to persons at a di- 

 stance interested in the zoology of the British Islands, and who could 

 scarcely otherwise become acquainted with what discoveries had been 

 made or what additional information had been obtained. 



NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY FOR THE WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE. 



Henry Denny, Esq. of Leeds, the author of a History of the British 

 Pselaphida^, is at present attempting to establish a Society in the 

 West Riding of Yorkshire, for the promotion of the local Natural 

 History, and we trust he may be successful. This is one of the ob- 

 jects which has been recommended by the British Association, as 

 tending in an eminent manner to render our knowledge of the zo- 

 ology and botany of the country complete, and the additions which 

 have been made of late years both of new species and of valuable in- 

 formation regarding some previously accounted rare or little known 

 by the researches of local investigators, is ample testimony that the 



* We would anxiously recommend the work which Mr. Denny has at 

 present in preparation on the British Nirmidm. 



