ZOOLOGICAL AND BOTANICAL ASSOCIATION. 7 



Honobaey Secbetabies. — Joseph Reay Greene, Professor of Natural 

 History, Queen's College, Cork; and E. Per cival Wright, A.B., M.R.I.A., 

 Director of the University Museum. 



Botanical Committee. — "W. H. Harvey, M. D., Professor of Botany, 

 V. P., Chairman ; "William Archer ; John Bain, Curator of the College 

 Botanic Gardens ; Rev. Eugene O'Meara, A. B. (Council) ; H. C. Beau- 

 champ, M. B., M.R.I.A.; E. Percival Wright, A. B., Secretary. 



Zoological Committee. — Rev. 8. Haughton, A. M., Professor of 

 Geology, V. P., Chairman ; Alexander Carte, A. M., M. B., &c. ; Alfred 

 Furlong, M.R.I. A. ; Robert Harrison, M.D., Lecturer on Zoology, &c. ; 

 J. R. Kinahan, A.B., M.B., &c. (Council) ; J. Reay Greene, Secretary. 



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

 Honorary Secretaries, Rev. Eugene O'Meara, Botanical Committee; 

 J. R. Kinahan, Zoological Committee; Professor Harrison, M.D.; Pro- 

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



FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1857. 



Pbofessob W. H. Habvey, M. D., M. R. I. A., F. L. S., Vice-President, 



in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the previous Meeting having been read, were approved 

 of, and signed by the Chairman. 



The Secretary laid on the table the following — 



MEMOIB OF THE LATE BOBEBT BALL, LL. D., M.B.I. A., PBESIDENT OF THE 

 ASSOCIATION. BY BOBEBT FATTEBSON, M.B.I. A., ETC. 



Robebt Ball was the son of Bob Stawel Ball, of an ancient and re- 

 spectable family, who came from Bampton, in Devonshire, and settled 

 in Youghal in the year 1651. He was born at Cove (now Queenstown), 

 county of Cork, on the 1st of April, 1802. From childhood he mani- 

 fested a strong spirit of inquiry. A note, written by himself, says : — 

 " I was often quizzed for my infantine expression of ' What's that ?' 

 * What would it do to a person ?' and rated for breaking musical toys 

 to ascertain the mode in which the sound was produced." In animals 

 of all kinds he took especial delight. On one occasion his teacher, 

 observing that he was not p:i\ fag attention to his lessons, inquired into 



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