CONTENTS. 



1 . Report from Council, presented 4th November, 1804, H5 



2. Botanical Notes in the Midland Counties. By F. J. Foot, M. A., : 



F.R. G. S.I., f m 



3. On Entozoa from some Animals in the Royal Zoological Gardens, 



Phoenix Park, Dublin. By Arthur Wynne Foot,M.B.,L.R.C.S.L, 201 



4. On a mode of Fissiparous Reproduction observed in Anthea cereus. By 



Edward H. Bennett, M. D., F.R. C. S. I., . . 208 



5. Further Observations on Entozoa from some Animals in the Royal 



Zoological Gardens, Phoenix Park. By Arthur Wynne Foot, 

 M.B,, 212 



6. On the Structure of the Eye of the Seal. By Henky Wilson, 



F.R. C.S.L, . 217 



7. Notes on Coitus Grcenlandicus. By William Andrews, M.R.I.A., . 223 



8. On some of the Birds inhabiting the Southern Ocean. By Captain F. W. 



Hutton, F. G. S., 227 



9. On the Occurrence and Geological Relations of certain Ferns in the 



County Donegal. By W. Harte, C. E., F. R. G. S.I., . . . . 247 



10. Notes on Marine Invertebrata, collected on Portmarnock Strand. By 



W. H. Baily, F. L. S., F. G S., '. 251 



11. Letter from Dr. G. C. Wallich, F. L. S., to William Archer, on the 



Value of Characters in Protophyta, more especially in Desmidiacea?, 266 



12. Observations on the Genera Cylindrocystis (Menegh.), Mesotamium 



(Nag.),aiidSpirotsenia(Breb.) (=PalmoglceaKutz.^j-o maxima parte), 

 mainly induced by a Paper by Dr. J. B. Hicks, FiR. S., F. L. S., 

 in " Quart. Journ. Mic. Sci.," on the lower Forms of Alga?. By 

 William Archeb, 201 



13. Letter from R. H. Scott, M. A., Hon. Sec, Royal Geological Society of 



Ireland, on a Laurel-Fruit found in a Pheasant's Stomach, supposed 



to have been the Cause of Death, 278 



14. Report as to the Progress ma le in 1-865 in the Collection of the Irish 



Lichens. By Admiral T. ^QNES, F. L. S., F. G. S., 280 I 



15. On some Mosses new to the British Flora, and on some to the Irish Flora; 



with a Notice of the rediscoverv of Neothwa intacta (Reichenbach) 



in County Galway. By David Moore, Ph. D., F. L. S., M. R. I. A., 290 , 



16. On Echinorhijnchus porrigens. By John Barker, M. D., M.K.I. A., 



and A. Macalistek, L. K. Q. C. P., F. R. G. S. L, 293 



17. On the Anatomy of 'Asearis (Atr&ctis) dactyluris (Rud.). By Alex. 



Macalister, L. R. C. S. I., F. R. G. S. T. ' (With Plate III.), . . 291 



Annual General Meeting — Council and Officers for 1804- 05, .... 185 



Donations to Museum, ....-, . . . 193,247 



Appendix, xxi-xxxix 



Societies to Avhich Part II. of Vol. IV. of the " Proceedings" has been, sent, xxi 



Publications of other Societies received, xxiv 



Publications received from Private Individuals, xxviii 



List of Members of the Natural History Society of Dublin, collected to 



November, 1SG5, xxix \ 



Treasurer's Account (1st Nov. 1805), xxxv 



Rules of the Natural History Society of Dublin (at Nov. 18G5). . xxxvi 



Explanation of Plates L, if., III., '....' xli-xliii 



Index to Volume IV., xliv 



lie kind attention of the Honorary Secretaries of English and Foreign 

 Scientific Societies is requested to the Notice; on inside of cover; and those 

 Societies which have not yet entered into a mutual exchange of Pub- ' 

 lications are respectfully invited to do so. The Contributions received 

 during the past year are to be found duly acknowledged, with thanks, in 

 Appendix, No. XL, pp. xxi\ 



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