PROCEEDINGS 



OF TUB 



DUBLIN UNIVERSITY ZOOLOGICAL AND BOTANICAL 

 ASSOCIATION. 



FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1857. 



Rev. Professor Haughton, F.T.C.D., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Chairman having congratulated the Association upon their past 

 progress, and expressed his sanguine hopes of their future 'success and 

 permanence, founded upon the fact that this Association secured its 

 memhers at their entrance into life, and hound them to its service by 

 all the kindly recollections which every true son must bear through life 

 to his Alma Mater, — passed a brief eulogy on their late deeply lamented 

 President, Dr. Ball, and then reviewed rapidly the papers read before the 

 Association during the past season, and published in the fourth volume of 

 the "^Natural History Review." 



Among the more valuable of the papers mentioned were Dr. Harvey's 

 description and figures of new British Algae; Mr. Haliday's valuable addi- 

 tions to various branches of entomological science, including descriptions 

 of a new genus and species of Diapridae, and some valuable hints for 

 observers as to the lacunae yet remaining unfilled in the ranks of the 

 native Diptera; Mr. Archer's interesting list of Desmidiaceae from the 

 neighbourhood of Dublin; Mr. "Warren's list of the Natatores of Killala; 

 and Mr. Greene's Acalephae of the Dublin coast. Among the more po- 

 pular of the papers, Mr. Haughton specially noticed Dr. Harvey's account 

 of the Cannibals of the Feejee Islands, and Professor Smith's Botanical 

 Rambles in the Pyrenees. The mention of this latter paper reminded 

 Mr. Haughton that they, in common with the world of naturalists, had to 

 mourn the death of its talented author, as well as that of their well- 

 known late President, Dr. Ball, both removed within the past year from 

 the scene of their labours, by a fate which, judged of by human reason 



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