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December 10. 
SIR Ws. R. HAMILTON, A. M., President, in the Chair. 
John Herbert Orpen Esq. was elected a member. 
Professor Mac Cullagh presented two papyri, the gift of 
George James Knox, Esq. by whom they were lately brought 
from Upper Egypt. 
Reso.tvep,—That the Council be directed to take the 
proper steps to unrol and preserve the papyri. 
Mr. Ball read a paper entitled ‘‘ Description of the Cy- 
dippe pomiformis, Patterson, (Berde Ovatus, Flem.,) with no- 
tice of an apparently undescribed Species of Bolina, also 
found on the Coast of Ireland.” By Robert Patterson, Esq., 
Member of the Natural History Society of Belfast. 
The ‘author referred to a paper of his published in the 
Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal for January 1836, 
giving some account of a tentaculated Berée, taken in abund- 
ance by him at Larne Lough, County of Antrim, in the Spring 
of 1835. Hethen noticed the occurrence, on different occa- 
sions in 1836-7, of a Berde, exhibiting a peculiar ramiform 
arrangement of whitish internal vessels, branching off from 
near the lower part of the stomach to the several bands of 
cilia ; and detailed the observations by which he was enabled 
to identify this with the Berde described in Mem. Wer. 
Soc., vol. iii. p. 400, by Fleming,—the tentacula having es- 
caped the notice of that writer, from the specimen he ex- 
amined having been in an exhausted state when these 
organs were retracted within the body. The presence of 
the tentacula removes the animal from the Genus Berée of 
Fleming, to the Pleurobrachia of the same author (Cydippe 
Eschs,) and as the specific name Ovata, under which it was 
described in the Hist. of Brit. Animals, has been applied to 
