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bers to form a publication fund, to which appeal many of the Members 

 liberally responded, and youi' Council is now eaabled to present to each 

 Member not in arrear the volume of Transactions before you. 



E, P. Williams, Esq., having liberally placed at the disposal of the 

 Coimcil a number of plates of Sebastes Norvegicua and Cottus Oroenlan- 

 dicusy drawn on stone by him from specimens exhibited in this Society, 

 they have appended them to the Journal for this year, with a short ac- 

 count of the record of these rare fishes bj'' William Andrews, Esq., your 

 Honorary Secretary, who first detected their occurrence on the coast of 

 Ireland. A long and detailed paper on the British Oniscoidea was read 

 before the British Association at their late Meeting in this city, 250 co- 

 pics of which the author liberally placed at the disposal of the Council 

 for presentation to the Members, which it accepted and appended as a 

 Supplement to the Journal : the Journal thus contains eleven plates and 

 woodcuts of rare or new Irish animals. 



Dr. Kinahan has kindly undertaken to receive the subscriptions of 

 Members who may be anxious to subscribe to tho fund for publication, 

 and is empowered to dispose of copies of the Journal to Members or 

 others requiring additional copies, at the charge of Is. 6^^. each to Mem- 

 bers, or 2s. Qid. each to non-Members ; these funds to be applied to the 

 publication fund for next year. 



Two important alterations were made in the Eulcs during the past 

 Session, — one, passed at the Annual Meeting in November, having for 

 its object the appointment of Vice-Presidents ; the other, passed at the 

 May Meeting, for the establishment of a new class of Members, called 

 Associates, who, by the payment of the subscription of five shillings a 

 year, enjoy all the privileges of Members, except the right of voting, 

 thereby enabling every young naturalist who desires it to join the So- 

 ciety at a trifling expense. Your Council also suggested that Corre- 

 sponding Members, on the payment of five shillings per annum, should 

 be entitled to the Monthly Reports of the Meetings, and to the volumes 

 of Transactions of the year, which also received the assent of the Meet- 

 ing. These latter alterations were made too late in the Session to allow 

 of your Council reporting on their utility or otherwise, but they feel 

 persuaded that they must result in the more general spread of the work 

 for which this Society was originally instituted, viz., the illustration and 

 elucidation of the Natural History of Ireland. 



During the past month your Council have entered into a satisfactory 

 arrangement with the Dublin Chemical Society, who have agreed to hold 

 their Monthly and other Meetings in your Society's rooms ; all inter- 

 ference with the working of this Society, however, being guarded 

 against. 



One other subject demands notice, viz., the popular Meetings. Of 

 these, one only was held during the past Session. This arose from a 

 difficulty of procuring papers, chiefly dependent on the fact of most of 

 your working Members being engaged in preparing for the reception of 

 the British Association. The Meeting held was well attended, and your 



