280 NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF DUBLIN. 



After some conversation on these specimens, 



The following gentlemen were balloted for, and admitted Ordinary- 

 Members of the Society: — Sir Yictor A. Brooke, Bart., Colebrook, 

 Brookeborough, county of Fermanagh ; Henry Forde, Esq., Florence- 

 ville, Loughlinstown. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1865. 



The Rev. S. Hattghton, M. D., F. R. S., F. T. C. D., President, in 

 the Chair. 



The Minutes of the preceding General Meeting having been read 

 and signed, 



The following paper was then read : — 



Report as to the Progress made in 1865 in the Collection op the 

 Irish Lichens. By Admiral T. Jones, F. L. S., F. G. S. 



At the close of the Session last year the Society was informed that 

 the specimens actually collected amounted to 349. Since that time fifty- 

 six have been collected, and the number of specimens in the Society's 

 possession is 405. 



It may be necessary to repeat that several of these specimens, though 

 referred to their proper genera, are not specifically named. ~No. 369 — 

 Parmelia-form — is an example of this. We must submit to this defect 

 for the present. It is our business to collect the Irish Lichens, and every 

 form of them. 



It is necessary, also, to repeat that a considerable number of the 

 Lichens recorded by Drs. Taylor and Mackay are not found in this col- 

 lection. I have become possessed of a collection of cryptogamic plants, 

 the greater part of them labelled by Dr. Taylor himself, at Dunkerron, 

 in 1836-37. It cannot, however, be called a " Taylorean" Collection, 

 because some of the Lichens in it are labelled by Dr. J. Taylor, and to 

 some of them the locality is not attached. I may use this collection 

 where no doubt can exist. I have taken some specimens from it for 

 this collection, always attaching Dr. Taylor's name as the authority for 

 the plants, even though we know that he gave the name in error : 

 Bceomyces anomalus is an example of this ; but whoever consults these 

 lists will find how indispensable is the use of the achromatic micro- 

 scope in the examination of Lichens, and unfortunately Dr. Taylor did 

 not make use of it. 



Some of the plants added by Mr. Carroll merit especial notice. He 

 has found both in Cork and in Kerry Graphis Ruiziana (Fee), (No. 

 370 of this collection), a South American plant. This is the plant found 



