PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. 



1839. No. 19. 



November 11. 

 SIR Wm. R. HAMILTON, LL.D., President, in the Chair. 



William Hill, Esq., and John A. Bowles, Esq., were 

 elected Members of the Academy. 



Mr. Morrison, by permission of the Academy, read a 

 statement of the nature and objects of the Institute of Ar- 

 chitects of Ireland. 



Resolved, — That the Academy has heard with pleasure 

 of the establishment of this institution, and shall be always 

 happy to learn the prosperity of an establishment connected 

 essentially with the progress of an art so important to the best 

 interests of society. 



Mr. Ball read a paper " on the Bolina Hibernica," by 

 Robert Patterson, Esq., Member of the Natural History 

 Society of Belfast. 



In a note appended to his paper on the Cydippe Pomi- 

 formis, (Trans. R. I. A., vol. xix., part 1, page 96), the au- 

 thor had mentioned the occurrence on the Irish coast of a 

 species of ciliograde, which he had named provisionally Bo- 

 Una Hibernica* A large number having been taken in the bay 



of Bangor, county of Down, on the Uth of July, 1839, the 



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