32 NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF DUBLIN. 



MARCH 2, 1870. 

 Rev. Professor Hatjghton, E. R. S., Yice- President, in the Chair. 

 The Minutes of the previous Meeting having heen read, compared, and 

 signed, donations announced, and thanks voted : 



Professor Ramsay H. Traquair exhibited three fine specimens of 

 the rare ganoid fish, Calamoichthys Calabaricus, from the Old Calabar 

 River. These specimens were much larger than the original specimens 

 described by Dr. Smith of Edinburgh. 



Professor Macalister exhibited a specimen of the lizard Ameiva 

 guttata of Brazil, which was killed on Mangerton, county Kerry. The 

 animal had most probably been a very recent importation, as it was 

 quite lively when killed. Dr. Macalister showed an American speci- 

 men of this, not uncommon, lizard for comparison. 



The Rev. Professor Haughton detailed the circumstances connected 

 with the death of a lioness in the Royal Zoological Gardens, Phoenix 

 Park, and described the pathological appearances discovered on post- 

 mortem examination in the viscera, the most interesting of which were 

 a large perforation in the coats of the stomach, two corpora lutea in one 

 ovary and one in the other. 



» APRIL 6, 1870. 



Richard Palmer "Williams, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the previous Meeting having been read, compared, and 

 signed, donations announced, and thanks voted : 



Professor Macalistrr exhibited some Arachnidan parasites from 

 the Ornithorynchus paradoxus of Australia. 



Mr. Wilson, E. R. C. S. I., exhibited a collection of Coleoptera 

 from the Rhine "Valley, collected in the district between Mannheim and 

 Bonn, and in connexion therewith made a series of very interesting re- 

 marks upon the habits and economy of several of the species represented 

 in the collection. 



MAY 4, 1870. 

 William Andrews, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the previous Meeting having been read, compared, and 

 signed, donations announced, and thanks voted : 



The Chairman read the following communication, entitled — 



Ichthyological Notes. 



There are no subjects fraught with greater interest than discove' 

 ries which arise from a practical knowledge of any branch of science, 

 whether it relates to botany, geology, or to any of the orders or genera 

 of zoological investigations. 



