70 DUBLIN NATUHAL HISTOEY SOCIETY. 



Journal in Great Britain, Ireland, the Continent, and America, but also 

 at the end of each year enables your Council to present each Member with 

 a full record of the progress made — advantages the importance of which 

 must be apparent to all. These latter arrangements, which have now, as 

 you are aware, been in existence for the last three years, entail on the 

 Society, in conjunction with the rent and other necessary expenses of 

 the Meeting-rooms, an expenditure of above seventy pounds, leaving 

 but a very trifling sum to meet any extra expenses which may arise, and 

 incapacitating the Council from expending on your Museum the sums 

 necessary for its further development. 



Your Council has, however, every confidence that it has but to call 

 the attention of the Members, and Naturalists in general, to the impor- 

 tance of a still further increase to its means of usefulness, to obtain, by 

 accession of new Members, &c., such support as wiU enable it to carry 

 out the good work in which the Society has been for the past eighteen 

 years employed, particularly as, there being no paid officers in this So- 

 ciety, the whole of its income is devoted to one object, viz., the illus- 

 tration of the Natural History of Ireland, and affording every Irish 

 naturalist a medium by means of which Irish discovery can be registered 

 on Irish ground — a field of labour just as necessary now as when this 

 Society was started, as no other Society or Museum in this country is 

 devoted exclusively to Irish Natural History; and the numerous disco- 

 veries made through means of this Society prove, if proof were neces- 

 sary, the full value of such local labour. 



That during the several years of its existence, this Society's 

 labours have not been without their fruit, the following brief sum- 

 mary of a few of the notices of species read before your Meetings 

 since your foundation abundantly prove, and the list might be much 

 increased : — 



In Zoology. — Vertebrata, forty-two species. 



New to Ireland: — Mammals, two : — Vespertilio Naterreri, 1845; 

 Vespertilio mystacinus, 1853. 



Birds, six: — Morula Whitei, 1842; Sterna leucoptera, 1844; 

 Puffinus obscurus, 1853; Larus minutus, 1 840 ; Tringa rufescens, 

 1844 ; Malocorhynchus membranaceus, 1853. 



Reptiles, one: — Caretta caouana, 1849. 



Fishes, six: — Orthagoriscus mola, 1839; Orthagoriscus oblongus, 

 1845; Cottus Groenlandicus, 1850; Sebastes Norvegicus, 1850; Poly- 

 prion cernium, 1855; Tetraodon Pennantii, 1852. 



Of the Mollusca, twenty- three : — 



New to Ireland, eleven: — Geomalacus maculosus, 1842; Amphi- 

 peplea glutinosa, 1844; Pholadidea papyracea, 1850; Pholas striata, 

 1845; Limneus glaber, 1845; Spirula Peronii, 1845; Bulla hydatis, 

 1845 ; Teredo Norvagica. 



Polyzoa, three new species of Plumatella. 



Of Articulata, twenty-one. 



New to Ireland: — 



Insects: — ^Discomyza incurva, 1854; Hydrelia Banksiana, 1854. 



