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Ho had also met with that very remarkable and beautiful stalked 

 Polyzoon, the Pedicellina Belgica of Van Beneden. Of this he had 

 examined two living specimens, both growing upon fronds of Laminaria. 

 On the same fronds were several cells of Oemellaria loriculata, a common 

 English Polyzoon, of which, strangely enough, no Irish habitat has yet 

 been recorded. The figure of Johnston, drawn probably from a dead 

 specimen, represents the cells as too much flattened. 



All the above were taken between tide-marks on the sea-shore near 

 Trabulgan, county of Cork, opposite the residence of Lord Fermoy. 

 Here, too, he had also captured a single young specimen of the compa- 

 ratively rare Uraster hispida. 



Dr. E. Percival "Wright called the attention of the Meeting to the 

 Polyzoa noticed. It showed the necessity which existed for thoroughly 

 examining this group in Ireland. 



Professor Kinahan, M. D., exhibited a fine specimen of Foh/- 

 porus gigantea, measuring nearly two feet in thickness; the layers 

 of which it was composed covered an extent of surface of nearly two 

 feet by nine inches. It was attached to a stem of whitethorn ( Cratcegus 

 oxyacantha), and had been found in the breast of a ditch near Portlaw, 

 county of Waterford. He was indebted for the specimen to Miss H. 

 Shaw, of Springfield, Portlaw. The specimen illustrated the irregular 

 mode of the plant's growth, and its perennial nature, in a remarkable 

 manner. Dr. Kinahan alluded to the great abundance and luxuriance 

 of fungi, mosses, and lichens, in and about Curraghmore, county of Wa- 

 terford, where he had also found Lopliodium spinosum growing in some 

 abundance. 



The Meeting adjourned to the month of May. 



FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 7, 1858. 



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

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the previous Meeting were read and confirmed. 

 Dr. Kinahan read the following recommendation of the Council : — 



**That Robert John Montgomery, Esq., be appointed as Honorary 

 Director of the Museum, the Director to be ex-officio on the Coimcil." 



Moved by Dr. Kinahan, seconded by J. I. Whitty, LL. D., and 

 unanimously resolved, — That this recommendation of the Council be 

 adopted by the Society. 



Rev. Eugene O'Meara read the following paper — 



ON THE OCCURRENCE OF ANTHOZOIDS IN PLEUROSIGMA SPENCERII. 



On Friday evening, April 30, I was engaged in the examination 

 of a gathering I had made two days previous from a running stream. 



