DUBLIN UNIVERSITY 



Botany. — In Systematic Botany the Examination will be confined 

 to the following Orders ; which the Candidate will be required to illus- 

 trate by reference to the commoner native plants belonging to each : — 



Ranunculacere, 



Papaveraceae, 



Cruciferae, 



Caryophyllete, 



Geraniaceoe, 



Rosacea, 



Composite, 



Rubiacese, 



Boraginese, 



Labia ta?, 



Scrophylarinea?, 



Polygoneae, . 



Euphorbiaceae, 



1. Characteristics of Order. Its struc- 



ture and properties. 



2. British Genera and Species. 



3. Specimens will be produced at the 



Examination, which are to be cor- 

 rectly named and classed by the 

 Candidate. 



4. The Candidate will have to give a 



written description of one or two 

 selected plants, to test his fami- 

 rity with botanical terms. 



Lastly, one-fifth of the special marks will be reserved for collections 

 of native plants, fairly dried, and which have been collected, examined, 

 and correctly named, by the Candidate, during the preceding year. This 

 collection not to be restricted to plants of the above Orders, but to com- 

 prise the greatest number of species which the Candidate can obtain. 

 The name of Genus and Species, and of the natural Order to which it 

 belongs, to be affixed to each specimen. 



At the conclusion of his address Mr. Haughton reminded the members, 

 many of whom were undergraduates, of the advantages now opened to 

 them by the College lectures on Zoology, Geology, Chemistry, and 

 Physics, and of the high reward now for the first time offered to the 

 study of Zoology and Botany in the University of Dublin. The title of 

 Gold Medallist of the University of Dublin was one which he hoped 

 would always be a high distinction for a young man to attain to ; and 

 he felt confident that among the young naturalists he had the pleasure of 

 addressing, there were some who, if honored with such distinction for 

 their zoological and botanical knowledge, would eventually prove them- 

 selves as worthy of that title as the best mathematicians and scholars 

 this University had ever produced. 



The Secretary read a paper, entitled — 



NOTE OF THE OCCURRENCE OF THE HYPEROODON BUTZKOPF (BOTTLE- NOSED 

 WHALE). BY ROBERT PATTERSON, M.R.I.A. 



On the 22nd September, 1857, a whale of this species wa3 captured on 

 the southern shore of Belfast Bay, in one of the channels between Bel- 



