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November 50 (Stated Meeting.) 
SIR Wn. R. HAMILTON, LL.D., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. Herrick presented to the Academy an ancient wooden 
vessel, found at a considerable depth in Meenskehy bog, 
near Mill-street, in the county of Cork. Mr. Herrick ob- 
served that some gold ornaments, and a brazen spear head, 
had been found some years ago in the same locality. 
The thanks of the Academy were returned to Mr. Herrick 
for his donation. 
Mr. Ball read a paper “ on a Species of Loligo, found on 
the Shore of Dublin Bay.” 
After some general observations on the importance and 
interest attached to the study of cephalopodous Mollusca, 
the author proceeded to state, that about three years since 
the subject of his paper was brought to him, with other 
rejectamenta of the sea, collected after a storm, by his 
friend, T. W. Warren, Esq. Finding that it was not of a . 
species recorded as British, he endeavoured in vain to trace 
a description of it in foreign works; he therefore, but not 
without hesitation, presumed it to be nondescript. Its di- 
mensions are the following :— 
Extreme length, to the end of tentacula, 10.0 inches. 
Do. of the body or mantle, 3.1 Pa 
Do. ofthe heady «-istiaw «7G i 
Average length of arms, . . . . . .28 §y, 
Menthe: tentaculay "fo y.ee a OS gs 
ISTEROEN OL RDG? he, eae he) 2 BANE one 
Length offin, . . . i, Tepe mete Se 4 
Extreme breadth of ais Merrie. Sa ee lee “A 
Length of dorsal lamina, . . . . . . 3.5 ao 
Extreme breadth of dorsallamina, . . 0.2 a 
