2 DUBLIN NATXTRAl HTSTOHY SOCIETT. 



CoTTNCiL. — H. M. Barton; r."W. Brady; James E. Dombrain; William 

 Frazer, M.D.; Rev. J. A. Galbraith, F.T.C.D., M. KI.A.; Samuel 

 Gordon, M.D., M.E.I. A. ; WilHam Hodges; Cathcart Lees, M.D. ; Eev. 

 Eugene O'Meara ; George B. Owens, M. D. ; Gilbert Sanders, M. E. I. A. ; 

 Professor E. W. Smith, M. D., M.E.I. A.; H. T. Vickers. 



Teeasukee. — E. P. Williams, M.E. I. A. 



DiKECTOE OF Museum. — Eobert J. Montgomery. 



Seceetaeies. — J. E. Kinahan, M. D., P. L. S., M. E. I. A. ; William 

 Archer. 



The meeting having been declared special, the following recommen- 

 dation of Council was submitted : — 



That the following addition be made to the By-Laws, Eule XI Y. : — 



Proposed by J. E. Kinahan, M. D., seconded by E. P. Williams, and 

 passed, ?iem. con. — N'on-resident Members, living more than ten miles from 

 Dublin, may compound for life on payment of Pive Pounds ; such Mem- 

 bers afterwards becoming resident for two months in a year to pay a 

 subscription of Ten Shillings for each such year, or, at their option, to 

 pay a further composition of Pive Pounds. 



The following were then declared duly elected : — 



Ordinary Members : — E.P.Mason, M. D., York -street; William 

 Maziere ; Andrew H. Bagot. 



Honorary Member : — Eobert Patterson, P. E S., M. E. L A., Belfast. 



The Meeting then adjourned to the 2nd of December. 



FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2, 1859. 

 RoBEET Callwell, M. E. I. A., Yice-Peesident, in the Chair. 



The previous Minates were read and signed. 



The following were presented to the Museum : — 



Death's-head moth {A. atropos), captured atPortlaw, county of Wa- 

 terford, on the 7th September, 1859; presented by James Martin, M.D., 

 Corresponding Member. 



Convolvulus Sphinx {S. convohuli), captured atXilliney, county of 

 Dublin, August, 1859 ; presented by Joseph O'Kelly, A. B., Geological 

 Survey of Ireland, Corresponding Member. 



Black tern {Sterna nigra), shot at Moyville, county of Mayo, and 

 Richardson's skua {L. Richardsonii), from the same locality; presented 

 by Eobert Warren, Esq., Jun., Ballina, Corresponding Member. 



Common crayfish (Falinurus vulga/ris), captured at Dalkey Sound, 

 county of Dublin ; from D. J. Corrigan, M. D., M. E. I. A. 



The Seceetaey read the following communication — 



ON THE OCCTJEEENCE OF EAEE BIEDS, AND OF THE OBLONG SUNFISH, IN THE 

 COUNTY OP MAYO. 



*' Moyview, Ballina, December 1, 1859. 

 "My deae Dk. Kjnahan, — I write to ask you to be so kind as to 

 mention to the Natural History Society, at their next meeting, the oc- 



