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Ordinary Member : — Thomas Bewlej^, Esq., Dublin. 

 Corresponding Member : — John Roland, Esq., M. D., Bangor, Wales. 

 The Meeting then adjourned to the 2nd of March. 



FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 2, 1860. 



William Andrews, M. E. I. A., Pkesident, in the Chair. 



The previous Minutes having been read, were signed. 



The President delivered an address commemorative of the night of 

 meeting having fallen on the anniversary of the Society, Friday, March 

 2, 1838. In this address he reviewed the proceedings of the Society 

 since its foundation. Its formation was due to the zeal of a few gentle- 

 men, who, finding that there was at the time no Society in the city given 

 to the popular study of Irish natural history, nor any museum having 

 for its object the collection of Irish natural history objects, thought that 

 a profitable impulse might be given to the study of natural history by 

 founding a Society having as its objects the study of Irish zoology and 

 botany (the Geological Society, founded in 1832, having preoccupied 

 the field of geology and mineralogy), and the collecting together Irish 

 specimens in these branches. The papers read at the several sessions of 

 the Society were enumerated, showing that many of the monographs 

 since published in illustration of Irish natural history had first seen light 

 in the meetings of this Society. After a lengthened review of these, 

 and a contrast between the state of Irish natural history at the period 

 of the foundation of this Society and its present condition, the address 

 concluded. "My reason for not commenting on the progress science 

 generally had made in natural history was for the purpose, on this, the 

 anniversary day of the Societ}^, of detailing the records of its former 

 exertions, which had so long lain hidden in its Minutes, and which 

 many of the present Members had not seen." 



The thanks of the Societj'' were voted unanimously to the President. 



Eev. Samuel Haughton, E. E. S., read a paper on " The Geometric 

 Form of the Cell of the Honey-bee, and the facts deducible therefrom." 



After due ballot, the followiag were declared duly elected : — 



Corresponding Member : — George O'Brien, M. D., Ennis, county of 

 Clare. f 



Associate Member : — William Williams, Westmoreland-street. 



The Meeting then adjourned to the 13th of April. 



FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 13, 1860. 

 WiLLLVM Andrews, M. E. I. A., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the previous Meeting having been confirmed, were 

 signed. 



