PREFACE. 



The following pages contain extracts from Saunders' 

 News-Letter, The Durlin Evening Post (papers 

 formerly published in Dublin l and The Freeman's 

 Journal. These, together with the available Annual 

 Reports of the Society, coxier the period from 1840 to 

 1860. 



The Minutes of the Society for this period have 

 unfortunately been lost, and it is due to my predecessor, 

 Professor D. J. Cunningham, now Professor of Anatomy 

 in the University of Edinburgh, that ice are enabled to 

 lay these interesting records before our Members, and 

 place the Society in the position of having continuous 

 reports of its proceedings since its foundation in 1830. 



We are particularly indebted to another friend, the 

 late Caesar Litton Fcdkiner {whose recent sad loss ice 

 deeply deplore). He transcribed most of the extracts 

 contained in these pages for Professor Cunningham. 



R. F. SCHARFF, 



Hon. Sec. R.Z.S.I. 



Museum, Dublin, 



August, 1908. 



