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the investigator of the phenomena of vegetable life to consider also 

 the correlative forms of animal existence at once analogues and com- 

 petitors in the great struggle for existence. So, from the contem- 

 plation of plant life Mr. Archer was led to the study of animal life as 

 manifested in its lowest forms. His studies were rewarded by a very 

 brilliant series of discoveries, Among the group of the Rhizopods, not 

 only new species and genera, but several new families, have been dis- 

 covered and described by him. Chief among those memoirs I may 

 mention those in our own Proceedings " On some new or little known 

 freshwater E-hizopods," that, "On Chlamydomyxa labyrinthuloides, a 

 new freshwater sarcode organism," and those in the Quarterly Journal 

 of Microscopical Science "On some freshwater Rhizopods," in which he 

 described that beautiful form called by him " Rhaphidiophrys viridis," 

 still the noblest known form of freshwater Rhizopods. Not only was 

 the discovery of these new creatures a subject for congratulation, but 

 the painstaking way in which their life-history was studied and re- 

 corded will always remain a pattern for such work in future. His 

 Paper also " On Ballia callitriche," published in the Linnean Society's 

 Transactions, describing the structure and cell development of one of 

 the higher algae, has been received as a most valuable contribution to 

 our knoAvledge of cell-evolution. 



I am sure that the Academy will fully approve the judgment of 

 the Council in awarding to Mr. Archer a Cunningham Medal in recog- 

 nition of the merit he has shown in these varied and interesting 

 researches ; and in presenting him therewith, I venture to express my 

 hope that he may be able to prosecute still further a line of research 

 in which he has already been so successful. 



The President then presented the Medal to Me. Aechee. 



Mr. Gr. H. Kinahan read a Paper " On a Submarine Crannog, at 

 Ardmore, Co. Waterford." 



Alexander Macalister, m.d., was elected to the place on the Council 

 vacant by the death of David Moore, ph.d. 



Donations to the Library were presented, and thanks voted to the 

 Donors. 



