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‘* Public Meeting, 7th March, 1855, Professor W. Thom- 
son, a Continuation of his Paper on Zoophytes. 
‘* Private Meeting, 14th March, 1855, Mr. Duffy, on 
some Phenomena of Heat. ‘ 
‘* Private Meeting, 4th April, 1855, Mr. J. W. Forrester, 
on Coins. 
‘¢ Public Meeting, 18th April, 1855, Mr. A. O’D. Tay- 
lor, on the Rivers and Lakes of North America. 
‘¢ The Council have the painful duty of recording the 
decease of one of their number, Mr. J. R. Garrett, a 
gentleman whose acquirements in zoology were of a 
very high order, who had been for a time the fellow- 
labourer of our former lamented President, Mr. Wm. 
Thompson, and the loss of whose services in superin- 
tending the collection of our native Irish Fauna, will be 
severely felt. 
‘* As has been the custom, for several years past, the 
Museum was thrown open to the working classes on 
Easter Monday, when there was an attendance of about 
5,000 persons. The Council have to report most fa- 
vourably of the behaviour of so large a number of visi- 
ters, any injury that was sustained by the collections 
having been purely accidental, and comparatively tri- 
fling. 
“The Council are anxious to draw the attention of 
the shareholders and members to the present financial 
state of the Museum. At the annual meeting, in 1853, 
authority was given to borrow a sumof money, in order 
to cover the expenditure that was necessary for carry- 
ing out a number of improvements, and this having 
been done, an annual payment of interest is required, 
to meet which some means of extra income must be de- 
vised, as the current expenditure is barely met by the 
receipts.” 
The Treasurer’s accounts were then submitted and 
passed, 
