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ments may be made in the ventilation of the room, which is 

 at present very faulty, and I hope we have engineers enough 

 among us to have this satisfactorily accomplished without 

 much trouble. With regard to the Fauna Committee, I 

 think our work will prove very useful and interesting to 

 students of natural history. I congratulate the Council on 

 the very successful termination of their labours, and trust 

 that next year the Society will have an even more satisfactory 

 record to publish. 



Mr. Jaff]£ moved the adoption of the report and statement 

 of accounts. He agreed with the President that the Council 

 had done its work well, and deserved the thanks of the Society. 

 He trusted the Lecture Room would be improved as soon as 

 possible. 



Dr. MacCormac, in seconding the motion, said he felt 

 gratified to know that the number of the Society's members 

 continued to increase, and that the financial position was so 

 satisfactory. The lectures which had been given under the 

 Society's auspices during the past season were most interesting 

 and instructive, and calculated to develop a popular taste for 

 scientific pursuits. 



The Report was adopted. 



Mr. William Gray proposed that the thanks of the Society 

 be given to the ladies and gentlemen who had presented them 

 with objects of interest for the Museum during the past year. 

 He had been pleased to notice the growing tendency to make 

 collections of the kind, and he believed that tendency had been 

 promoted by the efficiency of the officers of the Society, and he 

 might particularly compliment the young blood among the 

 latter on the energy and interest displayed in the general 

 interests of the Society. 



Mr. Joseph Wright seconded the motion. There was no 

 doubt that the collections brought together in the Museum were 

 most valuable — indeed there was not a museum in Ireland 

 which had so good a collection of rocks, fossils, shells, and fauna 

 of its own neighbourhood. 



