PROCEEDINGS 
OF 
THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. 
1839. No. 19. 
November 11. 
SIR Wa. R. HAMILTON, LL.D., President, in the Chair. 
William Hill, Esq., and John A. Bowles, Esq., were 
elected Members of the Academy. 
Mr. Morrison, by permission of the Academy, read a 
statement of the nature and objects of the Institute of Ar- 
chitects of Ireland. 
Resotvrp,—That the Academy has heard with pleasure 
of the establishment of this institution, and shall be always 
happy to learn the prosperity of an establishment connected 
- essentially with the progress of an art so important to the best 
interests of society. 
Mr. Ball read a paper “on the Bolina Hibernica,” by 
Robert Patterson, Esq., Member of the Natural History 
Society of Belfast. 
In a note appended to his paper on the Cydippe Pomi- 
formis, (Trans. R. I. A., vol. xix., part 1, page 96), the au- 
thor had mentioned the occurrence on the Irish coast of a 
species of ciliograde, which he had named provisionally Bo- 
lina Hibernica. A large number having been taken in the bay 
of Bangor, county of Down, on the 11th of July, 1839, the 
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