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received in exchange from home and foreign societies will be 

 printed with the present Report. 



Such donations as were received during the year have been 

 incorporated with the Museum collections and exhibited in 

 their proper place in the several cabinets. Amongst the speci- 

 mensgiven may be mentioned Mr.R Welch'sland andfresh water 

 shells, some of which are rare species, and some only recently 

 added to the Irish fauna. Owing to evaporation many 

 specimens in jars require attention ; some of these have been 

 renewed, and others must shortly be dealt with. Further 

 additions to the herbarium have been selected, mounted, and 

 placed in their systematic order, and several cases of birds have 

 been cleaned and renovated. The curator and his assistant 

 have been fully occupied with the work, in addition to the 

 usual attention and oversight of the entire collections during 

 the session. Your council have to deplore the loss of their 

 president, the late Mr. Thomas Workman, J.P., who died after 

 a short illness at St. Paul's, Minnesota, on nth May last. He 

 had been for many years an active and valued member of our 

 society, and of the council, in which he was a vice-president 

 and librarian. During the two years in which he held the office 

 of president he was most zealous for the interests of the society, 

 and in last September he was chosen to voice at the Dover 

 meeting the city's invitation to the British Association. He 

 took the chair at our March meeting, and had made arrange- 

 ments to be home in time for our annual meeting, and that to 

 be held for the renewal of the invitation to the British Associa- 

 tion. Your council also received with much regret the 

 announcement of the death of Professor John F. Hodges, M.D., 

 a former president of the society, and of Mr. Jas. Thompson, 

 J. P., one of the oldest and most valued members, whose 

 brother William died while president in 1852. Captain Robert 

 Campbell, the donor of many valuable specimens in the 

 museum, has also passed away, much regretted. 



Mr. W. H. F. Patterson submitted the financial statement, 

 which showed a substantial balance in favour of the society, 

 though the subscriptions had slightly decreased. 



