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2 NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF DUBLIN. 



" * On the Anatomy of Lemur nigrifrons? by John Barker, Esq., 

 M.D. 



" • On the Bony Dorsal Shield of Tragulus Javanicus* by John 

 Barker, Esq., M.D. 



" ' On the Mucous Eolds in the Stomach of a Lioness,' by John 

 Barker, Esq., M.D. 



" ' On some Points observed in the Anatomy of an Aylesbury duck,' 

 by Arthur Wynne Eoot, Esq., M.D. 



On Euplectella aspergillum? by S. E. Graves, Esq., M.P. 

 On the Comparative Anatomy of the Pronator Group of Muscles/ 

 by Dr. Alexander Macalister. 



" ' On Tubipora musical by Professor E. Percival "Wright, M.D. 



" ' On the Odonata of the Seychelles,' by Professor E. Percival 

 Wright, M.D. 



" ' On RMnodon typicus and its Parasites,' by Professor E. Percival 

 Wright, M.D. 



BOTANICAL. 



" ' On Spliceria Robertsii from New Zealand,' by Arthur Wynne 

 Foot, M. D. 



" ' On the Flora of Kinross-shire,' by Dr. Alexander Macalister. 



" l On New Species of Diatoms from Arran,' by Eev. Eugene 

 O'Meara, A.M. 



" ' On the Discovery of Cuscuta epithymum in Ireland,' by Dr. 

 Walter G. Smith. 



" ' Notes of a Tour to Sicily and Portugal in the spring and autumn 

 of 1868,' by Professor E. Percival Wright, M.D. 



" Considerable delay has been incurred in the publication of Part 

 II. of Volume Y. of the ' Proceedings,' owing, in a great measure to the 

 difficulty of obtaining from the authors the manuscripts of the Papers 

 read. Part III. of Volume Y. is already nearly printed, and Part IV., 

 concluding the volume, and containing the Papers enumerated above, 

 is in progress. Seven of the ten plates required for the illustration of 

 this Part are already printed. Mr. Archer, with his accustomed libe- 

 rality, has defrayed the expense of the four coloured plates which illus- 

 trate his two communications. Your Council would take this opportunity 

 of impressing upon their successors the great importance of publishing 

 and illustrating their monthly proceedings. 



" During the past Session the Society has suffered the loss, by death, 

 of two of its annual members — Dr. Maurice H. Collis and Mr. John 

 Good. The latter gentleman was for several years a member of the 

 Council, and a most regular attendant at its meetings, and was at all 

 times ready to assist any of the members of the Society in Natural 

 History pursuits. The records of the Society, and the fourth volume of 

 Mr. Thompson's ' Natural History of Ireland,' bear witness to the 

 number of species added to the Irish Fauna through Mr. Good's exer- 

 tions, and all who knew him will recollect how readv he was at all 



