

PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF DUBLIN. 



SESSION 1865-6. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, Friday Evening, November 3, 1865. 

 Royal Irish Academy House, Dawson-street. 



The Eev. S. Hatjghton, M.D., F. T. CD., F.R. S., President, in the 



Chair. 



The Minutes of the preceding meeting, being those of the concluding 

 meeting of the last Session, were read and confirmed. 



The Ballot then opened for the President, Vice-Presidents, Council, 

 and Officers for the ensuing year. 



Mr. Archer, one of the Honorary Secretaries, then read the following 

 Report from the Council : — 



" Your Council, in accordance with custom, begs to offer the fol- 

 lowing brief Eeport on the state and circumstances of the So- 

 ciety : — 



" During the past Session eight Ordinary, one Associate, and five 

 Corresponding Members have been added to the list on the books at the 

 commencement of the last Session ; whilst the losses have been six — 

 four Ordinary Members, one Associate, and one Corresponding. Thus 

 the numerical strength of the Society is greater only by four Ordinary 

 and four Corresponding Members than at this time last year. 



" Botanical science has during the year met with a heavy loss in the 

 death of two of its most illustrious representatives ; and this Society 

 has, at the same time, to lament two of its most distinguished Honorary 

 Members. Sir "William J. Hooker and Professor Lindley have passed 

 to their rest, each in his way leaving a name imperishable in the annals 

 of science. It would be difficult to over-estimate the immense impor- 

 tance their lifelong labours have had in placing botany, as a science, on 



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