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inst. On the 10th alt. Dr. Greville had presided at the meeting of the 

 Botanical Society of Edinburgh, and took a prominent part in the proceed- 

 ings of the evening. This distinguished gentleman, as is well known, 

 held a high position as a cryptogamic botanist, and his loss will be 

 much felt in the scientific world, and regretted by a large circle of 

 acquaintances. 



It was proposed by the President and unanimously resolved — "That 

 this Society has heard with deep regret of the death of the distinguished 

 botanist, Dr. R. K. Greville." 



The following gentlemen were elected Ordinary Members of the So- 

 ciety : — John Bain, Esq., College Botanic Garden; Maurice H. Collis, 

 Esq., M. D., 25, Lower Baggot-street ; Edward Nolan, Esq., 1, Palmers- 

 ton Villas, Eathmines ; G. St. G. Tyner, Esq., M. D., Stevens's Hospital ; 

 William Williams, Esq., Philip sburgh- avenue, Fairview ; G. Orr Wil- 

 son, Esq., Dunardagh, Blackrock. 



Several papers, owing to the lateness of the hour, remaining unread, 

 it was resolved that the meeting stand adjourned to Thursday, the 28th 

 instant. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1866. 



David Mooee, Ph. D., E. L. S., &c, President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. 



Dr. E. Perceval Wright, E. L. S., in the author's absence, then 

 read a 



Catalogue of the Lepidopteea of Ireland. By Edwin Birchall. 



Ten years having elapsed since the publication, by the Dublin 

 University Zoological and Botanical Association, of lists of Irish Lepi- 

 doptera by the Eev. Joseph Greene and the Rev. A. E. Hogan, toge- 

 ther comprising 636 species, I venture to offer the following revised 

 and extended list, in which 961 species are recorded as indigenous, in- 

 cluding seven species not known to occur in Great Britain. Much has 

 yet to be done before a catalogue even approximately complete can be 

 prepared ; still I hope that a record of the present state of our know- 

 ledge of the distribution of the Lepidoptera in Ireland will not be with- 

 out value as a basis for future observations ; and the sooner it becomes 

 obsolete, the better will its purpose be answered. 



" Enough, if something from our hands have power 

 To live, and act, and serve the future hour.' 



I have been unwilling to reject from the list any reputed indigenous 

 species which could be retained with the least show of reason. In some 

 cases species have been retained on the strength of very old and solitary 

 observations, but the authority on which this has been done will, I 

 vol. v I 



