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The following members were elected to form the 
Council for the ensuing twelve months :—Thomas An- 
drews, M.D., F.R.S., President; George Dickie, 
M.D., Robert M‘Adam, George C. Hyndman, Robert 
Patterson, Vice-Presidents ; John Grattan, Treausrer; 
Rey. Isaiah Steen, Librarian; Jas. M‘Adam, F.G.S., A. 
O’D. Taylor, Secretaries; John Grainger, Corresponding 
Secretary; Edmund Getty, Joseph J. Murphy, John 
Stevelly, LL.D., James Thomson, C.E., Wm. Bottom- 
ley, Councillors, not officers. 
LIST OF DONATIONS FOR THE SESSION 1854-55. 
To THE Musrum—Dr. Andrews, Queen’s College, a 
number of Australian birdskins ; Captain Skinner, se- 
veral beetles and two centipedes from Jamaica ; Dr. 
Dickie* Queen’s College, specimen of the axolotl, from 
the Lake of Mexico ; Francis Rankin, Esq., Kircubbin, 
a turtle dove; Lord Clermont, Ravensdale-park, a 
stuffed specimen of the grey lag goose, and a moun- 
tain finch; Mr. Edward Wilson, a tufted duck; Mr. 
Henry Bell, Ballymacarrett, a light-coloured variety of 
the widgeon and a wild swan, shot in Belfast Lough ; 
Alexander Johns, Esq., Carrickfergus, a specimen of the 
Anglesea maurice ; Robert Grimshaw, Esq., Longfield, 
a number of Indian birds, and 17 reptiles from India ; 
Mr. Taylor, Gamekeeper at Langford-lodge, a grey lag 
goose; Robert Warren, jun., Esq., Mayview, County 
Mayo, an Iceland gull, shot near Mayview; A. O’D. 
Taylor, Esq., shells, &c., from Goat Island, near the Falls of 
Niagara; Mr. M‘Adam, specimens of minerals; Mrs. 
Richard Thompson, a medal, found near Woodburn ; 
Mr. George Patterson, Holywood, an old medal, com- 
memorating the taking of Portobello; Mr. James To- 
lerton, Donaghadee, an ancient bronze axe; Captain Ed- 
ward Smyth Mercer, 94th Regt., a valuable series of spe- 
cimens, illustrations of the domestic and religious life 
of the Burmese, comprising cooking apparatus, and va- 
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