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Treasurers since 1845, as well as outstanding liabilities incurred during 

 the famine years. This has compelled it to diminish the reserve fund 

 by the former amount, and has caused an apparent deficit on the So- 

 ciety's side of the Treasurer's account for the year ; this latter, however, 

 is more than covered by the arrears of subscriptions due, and the Council 

 hopes that through the exertions of the present members such an acces- 

 sion will be made to the list of the members as will enable the Council 

 soon to announce as large a balance in the reserve fund as in the former 

 years. 



The yearly necessary expenses of your Society, as stated in former 

 reports, at present leave but a small balance to pay for printhig, &c., the 

 Proceedings ; and your Council fears that, unless an increase take place 

 to the present income, the present advantageous arrangement, as re- 

 gards this most useful adjunct to your meetings, must be abandoned. 

 The back Proceedings for the years 1849 to 1855 also, as yet, remain 

 unprinted, save in the columns of *' Saunders's Kews- Letter ;" and your 

 Council finds among these many communications which it would be 

 highly desirable to reprint, and thus preserve for reference. This could 

 be done uniformly with the first part of your Proceedings, at a cost of 

 not more than £15 or £20, — an expenditure which, however desirable, 

 the present state of the funds will not justify. 



The term of office for which your President, Professor "W. H. Harvey, 

 M. D., has been elected, having expired, your Council feels that it could 

 not select a more fitting successor to the office than the gentleman who 

 has now, for so many years, filled the post of Secretary, William An- 

 drews, Esq., and have, therefore, much pleasure in recommending him 

 to the members for election, feeling confident that in so doing it will 

 meet with the approbation of the Society, for affording this Meeting an 

 opportunity of marking its sense of the services rendered to the Society 

 during a long series of years, in common with many other of the old 

 members ; and also for consulting the Society's best interest, by placing 

 in the responsible post of President of the I^atural History Society of 

 Dublin one whose name in England and on the Continent, as well as in 

 this country, has been for many years identified with original research 

 in Irish Natural History. 



Among the list of your Vice-Presidents appears the name of one, to 

 whom, in this, your twenty- first year, your Council deems that it would 

 be failing in its duty did it not afford the members an opportunity of ac- 

 knowledging the kindness, which, in spite of multifarious public duties, 

 was displayed towards, and took an active part in, the proceedings of 

 the Society, acting as your President for upwards of eleven years, and 

 at all times exhibiting an interest in the weU-being and welfare of the 

 Society. The Council, therefore, feeling that the time has at length come 

 for the Society to mark its deep sense of gratitude towards his Grace the 

 Lord Archbishop of Dublin, for the anxiety displayed by him for the 

 promotion of natural science in Dublin, proposes that we place his name 

 permanently on our rolls as Patron of the Society, feeling that in this 

 recommendation it is but expressing the feelings of the Society at large 



