ZOOLOGICAL AND BOTANICAL ASSOCIATION. 155 



SESSION 1858-59. 



FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1858. (Stated Meeting.) 



Pkofessoe W. H. Haevet, M.D., M.R.I. A., F.L.S., F.R. S., 



Vice-Peesident, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of last Meeting having been read, were approved of, and 

 signed by the Chairman. 



Db. E. Peeceval Weight, Hon. Sec, then read the following — 



EEPOET FEOM COUNCIL. 



Youe Council, while congratulating the Members on the commence- 

 ment of this, the Seventh Session of the Dublin University Zoological and 

 Botanical Association, would briefly review the Proceedings of the last 

 Session for 1857-58, which has been distinguished as the one in which 

 Graduates of this and the sister Universities have been admitted as Ordi- 

 nary Members, and in which we have been enabled for the first time to 

 print our Proceedings in a separate form. The General Meetings have been 

 on each occasion well attended, many of the Papers read having been 

 of an interesting character. For full details of the Papers we refer to 

 the published Proceedings : fifteen of these were devoted to zoological, 

 and eight to botanical subjects, which, with the Address of the Rev. 

 Professor Haughton at the opening of the Session, and the Memoir of 

 the then late President by Robert Patterson, M. R. I. A., make a total of 

 twenty-five, or an average of three papers at each meeting. 



Upwards of five-and-twenty species new to science have been de- 

 scribed in the Papers read at the General Meetings, the greater number 

 of which have been published with illustrations in the Proceedings. 



The exhibition of various new or rare plants and animals has con- 

 tributed in no slight degree to the interest of our Evening Meetings ; 

 and your Council consider the thanks of the Association due to Mr. Bain, 

 Curator of the College Botanic Gardens, for his kindness in constantly 

 exhibiting many rare and valuable specimens. 



For a list of the works, &c, added to the Library, your Council 



