

SESSION 1866-7. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, Thursday Evening, November 1, 1866. 



Royai, Irish Academy House, Dawson-street. 



David Moore, Ph. D., P. L. S., M. R. I. A., President, in the Chair. 



Read, the Minntes of the preceding General Meeting, which were con- 

 firmed. 



The Ballot was then opened for Council and Officers for the coming 

 Session. Professor E. Perceval Wright and Mr. W. B. Brownrigg hav- 

 ing been appointed Scrutineers, 



The Report of the Council was then read, as follows : — 



" Another Session of our now somewhat venerable Society termi- 

 nates, and a new one begins to-night. At the close of the Session 

 which is now bygone, your Council cannot return to your hands the 

 trust confided to it without expressing a hope for an unlimited conti- 

 nuation of the vigour and steady progress which have hitherto marked 

 the career of our Society. 



" During the past year seventeen Ordinary Members have been 

 added to the list, including two Associates who became Ordinary Mem- 

 bers; whilst the losses have been three, by resignation. 



" Last year botanical science suffered a heavy loss in the death 

 of two of its most illustrious representatives in the sister country — 

 Sir W. J. Hooker and Dr. Lindley. This year an Irish botanist, 

 no less distinguished, has been removed from amongst us. It 

 would ill become this Society, at this Meeting, inaugurating a 

 new Session, to omit to place on record the unfeigned regret of 

 its Members at the death of Professor W. H. Harvey. Dr. Har- 

 vey, at the time of his death, was not a Member of this Society 

 — indeed, his increasing delicacy of late years forbade his leaving 

 his house at night ; but in his more active days Dr. Harvey took a 

 long and an energetic part in this Society. He was some time its Pre- 

 sident, and always looked upon it with much interest. Of the late Pro- 

 fessor's long scientific labours it is unnecessary to speak — they are a 

 ' monumentum sere perennius;' nor of his geniality and amiability — 

 they will be remembered by all who had the pleasure of his acquaint- 

 ance ; nor of his humour and abilities in fields other than those apper- 

 taining to his Professor's Chair: those who knew him further than in 

 the latter capacity will readily call to mind how much of these enviable 

 qualities were his. We here, Members of the Natural History Society 

 of Dublin — recognising fully the many high qualities, scientific and 

 personal, of the late Professor — bearing in mind the long years of in- 

 tercourse which he had with this Society — would simply desire to 

 place on record our high esteem for him when living, and our vivid 



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