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flavicans, the wolf-poisoner of the Swedes. Borrera cJirysophthalma has 

 been collected near Bandon, and on apple trees in an old orchard near 

 Listowel. Endless are the remarks that could be made. The President 

 was sure that for the handsome presentation Admiral Jones would re- 

 ceive the unanimous thanks of the Society. 



Dr. D. Moore, E. L. S., in rising to second the vote of thanks to 

 Admiral Jones, alluded to the reason why he had commenced this col- 

 lection for presentation to the former University Association. It was 

 because, information as to the Irish Flora being unsatisfactory, it was 

 considered desirable that the knowledge and experience of those able to 

 afford assistance, especially in the cryptogamic department, should be 

 availed of, with a view to adding to our present knowledge and clearing 

 up obscurity. Accordingly, Admiral Jones, so well fitted by his great 

 experience and accurate acquaintance with the Lichens, was requested 

 to undertake that Order ; and well and laboriously, and, as the presen- 

 tation made to-night sufficiently proves, successfully, has he worked at 

 his task. He (Dr. Moore) need not urge the labour involved in working 

 out any large group, especially in cryptogamic botany ; to do so success- 

 fully, accurately, and thoroughly, he might say was labour for a lifetime. 

 Hence the debt they owed to Admiral Jones for this carefully-examined 

 and named collection of Irish Lichens, which, he trusted, would prove 

 the nucleus of a herbarium equally complete in other departments. Now 

 that the other Natural History Society in Dublin had become fused 

 with this, thus he hoped producing one strong Society, he trusted that 

 great good must result, and the object alluded to, amongst others, be 

 more likely to be attained. He might mention that a project was on 

 the tapis to bring out an enumeration of the Irish Flora, as far indeed 

 only at present as relates to Phanerogamous plants, based upon the 

 geographical distribution — a " Cybele Hibernica," in fact. It could not 

 be supposed, with the insufficient data at disposal as regards various 

 parts of the country, that this could be at first as perfect as it should 

 be ; but it is to be hoped that the activity of the members, local and 

 corresponding, might speedily help to fill up the blanks. It behoved 

 the Society to stir itself : let each member work in his department, and 

 try to make the annual "Part" of the "Proceedings," as a record of 

 the work done, more worthy to be placed side by side with the valuable 

 publications of English and Eoreign Societies, so generously forwarded 

 in exchange for that of this Society. He had extreme pleasure in 

 seconding the vote of thanks to Admiral Jones for his important dona- 

 tion. 



The vote of thanks to Admiral Jones for his valuable presentation 

 was carried by acclamation. 



The President exhibited a portion of the rhizome of Polypodium 

 bifrons, from New Zealand, having growing thereon a number of curious 

 tuber-like excrescences, probably likewise stores of nutriment for the 

 plant. 



