ZOOLOGICAL AND BOTANICAL ASSOCIATION. 157 



After the Treasurer's (Appendix IV.) and Librarian's (Appendix III.) 

 Reports for the last Session had been read and adopted, the election for 

 Officers and Council for the ensuing Session was proceeded with, when 

 the following were declared duly elected : — 



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



F.L.S., &c. 



Vice-Presidents. — Alexander H. Haliday, A .M., M. R. I.A., F. L. S., 

 &c, and Rev. Professor S. Haughton, A.M., F.TC.D., M.R.I. A., 

 F.R.S., &c 



Honorary Treasurer. — Rev. Thaddeus O'Mahony, A.B. 



Honorary Librarian. — W. B. Brownrigg, Science Sch. T. C. D. 



Honorary Secretaries. — Joseph Reay Greene, Professor of Natural 

 History, Queen's College, Cork; and E. Perceval Wright, A. B., M. B., 

 M.R.I. A., Lecturer on Zoology in the University of Dublin. 



Botanical Committee. — Rev. Eugene O'Meara, A. M. {Chairman) ; 

 William Archer {Council) ; John Bain, Curator of the College Botanical 

 Gardens; Robert Callwell, M. R. I. A. ; David Moore, A. L. S. ; and E. 

 Perceval Wright, M.B. {Secretary). 



Zoological Committee. — Alfred Furlong, M. R. I. A. {Chairman)) 

 Rev. S. Haughton, A.M., V. P. ; Alexander Carte, A. M., M. B., ; A. H. 

 Haliday, A. M., V. P. ; J. R. Kinahan, A. B., M. D. (Council) ; Joseph 

 Reay Greene {Secretary). 



Council. — The President, the Vice-Presidents, the Treasurer, the 

 Librarian, the Honorary Secretaries, Professor R. W. Smith, M. D. ; 

 Professor Ingram, LL. D. ; Professor Stokes, M. D. 



After which the President delivered the following — 



ADDRESS. 



Gentlemen, — It has hitherto been the general custom of your Pre- 

 sident, in taking the Chair for the first time, to offer a review of the 

 various papers and notices which have been brought before the Associ- 

 ation during the previous Session. If I depart from this time-honoured 

 custom, adopted from older and larger societies than ours, and ask your 

 attention instead to a few general remarks on the studies which have 

 brought us together, I trust you will bear with me. It appears to me 

 to be a needless reiteration to recapitulate matter so recently handled by 

 the authors of the papers, and which, in our printed Proceedings, is, 

 or ought to be, in the hands of all our Members. Whatever of value 



