DUBLIN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETrNG. NOVEMBER 23rd, 1866. 

 Robert Caldwell, Esq., M.R.I.A., in the chair. 



The minutes of the last preceding meeting and other preliminary btuineM having; 

 been disposed of, 



Mr. Andrews, honorary secretary, was called on for the annual report, which he 

 proccoded to read as follows : — 



"Gentlemen — We have ajrnin the pleasure of submitting to you the annnal 

 transactions of the Society, and to report its steady and favourable progress to this 

 the seventeenth year of its proceedings. It has hitherto been invariably the practice 

 to lay before the members abstracts in detail of the papers and discussions on the 

 several branches of the natural sciences that had occupied each evening of the monthly 

 meetings throughout the session ; but these proceedings have been so very folly 

 given in the journal of the ' Natural History Review,' which publication aflfordf a 

 secure record of such transactions, that it will only now be necessary to enumerate 

 the subjects brought forward during the session of 1854-55: — * Notices of some 

 rare Crustacea contained on the West Coast' — communicated by Mr. Andrews, hono- 

 rary secretary. ' On the Coleoptera infesting Granaries' — James Haughton, Jan., 

 Esq. ' On a digitate variety of Botrychium Lunaria, with observations on the forms 

 of other ferns, noting a new Irish habitat of Lophodium Spinosum' — Dr. Kinahan. 

 * Remarks on the bones of animals, and of some extinct species, found in a crannog or 

 fortified entrenchment, at Dunshaughlin' — communicated by Mr. Wakeman. / C a 

 Pectunculus Glycymeris, and on the local range of Molluscous animals traced'#ith 

 tlic dredge.' — Dr. Farran. ' Remarks on the soundings off the south-west coast, and 

 on an addition to the Fauna of Ireland, " Eunice tubicola" ' — Mr. Andrews. 'On 

 a very fine specimen of the head and horns of the red deer, taken from an excava- 

 tion in the bed of the river Boyne' — communicated by Mr. Trouton, of Drogheda. 

 ' Remarks on the Serrani and Percidoe, and on an addition to the ichthyology 

 of Ireland, '•Polyprion Cernium"' — Mr. Andrews. 'On the capture of Larus 

 Islandicus, at Kenmare,' by Dr. George Gray Creighton. ' Notes on the Omitho- 

 loffy of the south-west coast, and on the occurrence of the greater shearwater, 

 Puffinos major; with remarks on the characteristics of Larus Bonapartii and Larus 

 ridibundus' — Mr. Andrews. 'Onlanthina communis, collected with other mol- 

 lunca on the west coast, with notes on the peculiar habits of lanthina' — Mr. Hopkins. 

 ' Continuation of Mr. Wakeman's paper on the remains of animals, war implements, 

 ^c, found at Dunshaughlin.* ' On the habits and varieties of some of the Larida;, 

 and of the characters of Irish specimens of Larus ridibundus,' by Mr. Watters. ' On 

 the advantage to botany of local lists and notes with reference to the algae of the 

 east coast of Ireland' — Gilbert Sanders, Esq. ' Remarks on some rare algae, south- 

 west coast' — Mr. Andrews. ' On the effVcts of the severe frost of the winter of 1865 

 on plants in the neighbourhood of Sligo,* by the Right Hon. John Wynne. ' Re- 

 marks on the plantations of the Ilazlewood Estate, Sligo ; and on pines and trees 

 best calculated for exposed plantations' — Mr. Andrews. 'Notices on the par and 

 on the salmon fry, and on the result oi the experiments at the Stormontfield pond**, 

 banks of the Tay' — Mr. Andrews. ' Records of the breeding of the Scaup duck in 

 Kerry, and on the occurrence in inland lakes in the summer months of the red- 

 hreasted Merganser M. serrator, and of the recent occurrences in several localities 

 of the turtle dove — Columba turtur.' These formed the principal features of the 

 proceedings of the past session. Some donations of interest have been added to the 

 collection, the chief being specimens of the Crustacea, from the Dublin coast, and 

 from the west coast of Ireland, presented by Dr. Kinahan and Mr. Andrews ; and 



