36 DUBLIN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



Pagurus Cuanensis, P. Hyndmanni, P. Thompsonii, Crangon vulgaris, 

 C. sculptus, C. Allmanni (new species), Hippolyte varians, H. Cranchii, 

 If, Thompsoni, Mysis chumceleon, from the Dublin coasts. 



Mrs. I. Townsend, Rossbcgh, per Dr. Kinahan. — Psammohia vesper- 

 Una, from Lough Ine, Co. Cork. 



H. Meredith, Esq., per G. A. Pollock, Esq. — Falco peregrinus, Co. 

 Meath. 



TO THE LIBRARY. 



" Natural History Review," for July and October, 1856. Erom the 

 Editors. 



" Transactions of the Natural History and Philosophical Society of 

 Liverpool." Vol. X. From the Society. 



" On the Prevention of the Smoke Nuisance." A Prize Essay. By 

 C. W. Williams, Esq. From the Author. 



" Geological Map of Ireland, geologically coloured, according to the 

 latest observations." From Richard Griffith, Esq., LL. D. 



FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1857, 



Professor W. H. Harvey, M.D., M.R.I. A., F.L.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the previous Meeting having been read and signed, — 



The President rose, and made the following remarks — 



"We had been summoned to meet to-night, a week in advance of our 

 usual time, in consequence of the second Friday of the month falling on 

 Good Friday ; but instead of proceeding with the essays of the evening 

 it becomes my unexpected and painful duty — in compliance with the 

 unanimous wish of your Council — to move that this meeting adjourn to 

 Friday, the 1 7th instant. The cause need scarcely be stated, so general 

 throughout Dublin has been the shock felt at the sudden decease of Dr. 

 Robert Ball, Director of the University Museum, and President of a So- 

 ciety kindred to our own. Of my private feelings on this occasion I 

 will not speak. Every one knows how intimately we have been con- 

 nected together for a very long time. Our friendship commenced two and 

 thirty years ago, when I was a schoolboy, and closes, leaving me a gray- 

 haired man ; and throughout the whole of that period we have had nei- 

 ther quarrel, nor jealousy, nor severance of feeling any kind. I always 

 found him the same — full of zoological information, most ready to 

 impart it, and taking special pleasure in seeing other students of nature 

 entering the field which he had so well trodden. I well remember how 

 proud I was, as a boy, to find myself on tenns of intimacy with a grown 

 man who was so fully informed on the subjects which were mysteries 

 to me. My favourite pursuit at that time was the Mollusca (I had not 

 then commenced Botany), and during a summer spent at Youghal I pro- 

 fited largely from Dr. liall's experience of the localities, and intimate 

 knowledge of the habits of the animalB we were seeking for. 



