260 Royal Irish Academy. 



Feidat Evening, Wovember 30, 1883. 



(St. Andrew's Day. — Stated Meeting.) 



SiE Samtjel Fekguson, q.c, ll.d., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Eobert W. Frazer, ll.b., having signed the Eoll, was admitted 

 a Member of the Academy. 



The President announced to the Academy the death of one of its 

 Members, Dr. Pichey, a.c. 



The President presented to Dr. E. Perceval Wright the Cunningham 

 Medal for his services in Natural Science. 



The President said — 



Doctor Edward Perceval Wright, 



Let me expressmy personal pleasure in being the medium of bestow- 

 ing the Cunningham Medal which Council has awarded to you for 

 your services in Natural Science. Your field of activity has extended 

 as well into Zoology as Botany, of both of which subjects you have, in 

 your time, been Professor in our University ; but it has chiefly lain in 

 the latter, in the direction of vegetable Physiology and the minute ob- 

 servation of the beginnings of Plant Life. The Academy, while specially 

 recognizing your services in the latter branch, has not forgotten your 

 Zoological researches both of fossil and recent forms ; and remembers 

 with approval, in the former, your examination of the extinct tribe of 

 Labyrinthodont reptiles from the Carlow coal-measures, in disinterring 

 and describing which you had the aid of the great Naturalist who to- 

 night takes his seat as President of the Poyal Society, and, in the 

 latter, of those strange but destructive mollusks of the Eastern seas 

 known as Ship-worms, one species of which you have, for the first 

 time, found inhabiting fresh water ; and it also takes notice that 

 your Memoir on the Structure of the Organ-pipe Coral told us, again 

 for the first time, the nature of the animal which built up that sin- 

 gular domicile, and the true composition of the domicile itself ; and 

 that your visit to the Islands of the Indian Ocean has been fruitful 

 in many additions to our lists of tropical forms. 



