VI PEOCEEDIKGS 01" THE 



Marcli 21st, 1861. 



Thomas Bell, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. David Moore, F.L.S., exhibited a flowering specimen of 

 Megacarpcea polyandra, from the Botanic Garden, Glasnevin, 

 where it was originally raised from seeds collected in the Plima- 

 laya Mountains by the late Major Madden, and where it flowered 

 for the first time in April, 1855. 



Eead, first, " On the Possibility of taking a Zoological Census ;" 

 by Alfred Newton, Esq., M.A., E.L.S. (See " Zoological Proceed- 

 ings," vol. vi.) 



Eead, secondly, " On the true Nature of certain Structures 

 appended to the Peet of Insects and Araclinida, subservient to 

 Locomotion;" by Tuffen West, Esq., E.L.S. (See "Transactions," 

 vol. xxiii. part 2.) 



April 4th, 1861. 



Thomas Bell, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Major Gary Barnard was elected a Pellow. 



Mr. Heward, P.L.S., exhibited specimens of Coelehogyne ilici- 

 folia and Gyrostemon attenuatvs from the Herbarium of the late 

 Allan Cunningham ; and made some observations upon them. 



Eead, first, " On the Identification of the Grasses of the Lin- 

 nean Herbarium ;" by Col. William Munro, H.M. 39th Eegt., 

 C.B., E.L.S., &c. (See " Botanical Proceedmgs," vol. vi.) 



Eead, secondly, " Note on an Unusual Mode of Germination 

 in the Mango {JSIangifera indicd) "; by Maxwell T. Masters, 

 Esq., E.L.S. (See " Botanical Proceedings," vol. vi.) 



Eead, thii'dly, " Descriptions of some new Species of Ant fi-om 

 the Holy Land;" by Erederick Smith, Esq., Assist. Zool. Dep., 



