PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE ' , 



DUBLIN UNIVERSITY ZOOLOGICAL AND BOTANICAL 

 ASSOCIATION. 



FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1859. 



Professor W. H. Haevey, M. D., F. R. & L. SS., President, 

 in tho Chair. 



Dr. E. Perceval Wright, F. L. S., read the following — 



REPORT OF COUNCIL. 



Your Council have to congratulate the Association on the success which 

 attended the meetings for the last session. The papers read during the 

 session were twenty-nine in number, of which nineteen were on zoolo- 

 gical, and ten on botanical subjects ; besides containing many impor- 

 tant facts in anatomy, physiology, and development, with valuable con- 

 tributions to the study of geographical distribution, they recorded the 

 existence of no less than thirty new species, all of which have been il- 

 lustrated in Part 2 of the " Proceedings," or are in process of illustra- 

 tion in Part 3. At the close of the last session, Part 2 of tho "Pro- 

 ceedings," dated July, 1859, was published, and duly forwarded to the 

 Members. It contained 110 pages, ten lithographic plates, and four 

 woodcuts ; also appendices, with list of members, catalogue of foreign 

 periodicals in our library, &c. Part 3, concluding Vol. I., and contain- 

 ing the " Proceedings" to the June meeting in 1859, will, it is hoped, 

 be laid on tho table before the next December meeting, and will contain 

 twelve plates, of which two will be coloured. It has been decided that, 

 lor the present, but one Part of tho " Proceedings" will be published each 

 year, so that after the publication of Part 3, the date of Volume II., 

 Part 1, will be November, 1*860. 



During the past session your Association has lost by death two Mem- 



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