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would bo found to bo more frequent visitors, especially in the west 

 There were many gentlemen resident in that part of Ireland who pos- 

 sessed interesting collections of birds captured in that district Ho 

 might mention one. In the collection of Edward Burton Eyre, of Clif- 

 den, the following rare birds, all captured about the Burren, were to be 

 seen : — The Glossy Ibis {Ibis falcinellus), Bohemian Wax wing {B. gar- 

 rula)y Siskin (Carduelis spinus), Sabine's Snipe {G. Sabmi). He had 

 himself had the good fortune to have seen alive the specimen of the 

 Martinique Gallinule to which Mr. Andrews referred, and there could 

 be no doubt as to the circumstances connected with its capture. It was 

 found alive, but exhausted, in Brandon, in a creek, but died not long 

 after its capture. 



The Rev. Professor Haughton brought forward a motion by which 

 a new class of Members, to be called Associates, should be formed {vide 

 end of Transactions). Undergraduates of the University to be especi- 

 ally eligible for this class of Membership. The Associates to have pri- 

 vileges of Members, to bo resident in or about Dublin, and to be elected 

 by a vote of the Society, on the previous recommendation of CounciL 

 The subscription for this class to be limited to 58. a year, to cover ex- 

 penses. 



This was seconded by Dr. G. B. Owens, and, after having been fully 

 discussed, was passed unanimously. 



By a resolution of the Society it was also determined that Corre- 

 sponding Members, paying 5«. annually in advance to the Treasurer, 

 should be entitled to the Monthly Report of the Societ)''s meetings, and 

 a copy of the Society's Proceedings. 



After due ballot, Edward Hamilton, M. D., 8, Stephen's-green, was 

 declared duly elected an Ordinary Member. 



The meeting then adjourned till June. 



FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 12, 1857. 



Pkofessoe W. H. Hakvet, M.D., M.R.LA., F.L.S., President, 

 in the Chaif. 



The Minutes having been read and signed, — 



Pbofessor Kinahan read some notes — 



ON A REMARKABLE VARIETY OF TRICHOMANES RADICAKS (kILLARNEY FERN). 



The form of this beautiful and well-known fern, which I lay before your 

 Society to-night, was first brought under my notice by Mr. John Bain, 

 the Curator of the University Botanic Gardens, and is peculiarly inter- 

 esting, as afibrding an example, among the ** Muscoid" ferns, of that 

 form of monstrosity which is met with rather commonly in some genera 

 of our native ferns, and for which I proposed the name of Laciuiatum 

 in a paper read before your Society in 1853. The departure from the 

 nornuil form consists, as there stated, in a depauperation of the mem- 

 branous portions of the frond, the more vascular poiiions remaining 



