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November 30 (Stated Meeting.) 



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



Mr. Herrick presented to the Academy an ancient wooden 

 vessel, found at a considerable depth in Meenskehy bog, 

 near Mill-street, in the county of Cork. Mr. Herrick ob- 

 served that some gold ornaments, and a brazen spear head, 

 had been found some years ago in the same locality. 



The thanks of the Academy were returned to Mr. Herrick 

 for his donation. 



Mr. Ball read a paper " on a Species of Loligo, found on 

 the Shore of Dublin Bay." 



After some general observations on the importance and 

 interest attached to the study of cephalopodous Mollusca, 

 the author proceeded to state, that about three years since 

 the subject of his paper was brought to him, with other 

 rejectamenta of the sea, collected after a storm, by his 

 friend, T. W. Warren, Esq. Finding that it was not of a 

 species recorded as British, he endeavoured in vain to trace 

 a description of it in foreign works ; he therefore, but not 

 without hesitation, presumed it to be nondescript. Its di- 

 mensions are the following : — 



Extreme length, to the end of tentacula, 10.0 inches. 

 Do. of the body or mantle, 3.1 „ 



Do. of the head, .... 1.6 „ 



Average length of arms, 2.8 „ 



Length of tentacula, . 6.0 „ 



Breadth of fin, .3.0 



Length of fin, 1.3 „ 



Extreme breadth of body, 1.7 „ 



Length of dorsal lamina 3.5 „ 



Extreme breadth of dorsal lamina, . .0.2 „ 



