PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF DUBLIN. 



E SSI ON 1862-3. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, Friday Evening, November 21, 1862. 



Royal, Irish Academy House, Dawson-street. 



William Andbews, M. R. I. A., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the preceding General Meeting were read and signed. 



The ballot for Officers and Council having been opened, the Report 

 from the outgoing Council was then read, by which it appeared that 

 during the preceding session fourteen papers had been read, ten zoolo- 

 gical and four botanical, all of an original and valuable character, most 

 of which had been published in the "Dublin Quarterly Journal of 

 Science," thus securing a large circulation in England and abroad; 

 while it was announced that the Society's own journal, bringing its Pro- 

 ceedings up to June, 1862, which was nearly ready, would be speedily 

 in the members hands. The donations to the Museum had been nume- 

 rous and valuable. 



During the preceding session, after having been obliged, as already 

 detailed to the members, to leave the former rooms in Great Brunswick- 

 street, the Society, unable to find suitable apartments in a convenient 

 locality, owing to the kindness of Gilbert Sanders, Esq., had obtained a 

 grateful shelter from that gentleman. The Council had now to thank 

 the Council of the Royal Irish Academy, for a courteous permission ac- 

 ceded to the Natural History Society, to hold its meetings at the Royal 

 Irish Academy House in Dawson-street. The Council submitted a re- 

 commendation to the Society, that the terms of Rule I. should be modi- 

 fied, to the effect that the words conveying, " That the Society have for 

 its sole object the elucidation of the Natural History of Ireland," 

 should be altered to the purport, "That the Society have for its object 



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