166 NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF DURLIN. 
ceding years. To report upon and to chronicle our scientific activity, 
beyond a reference to the papers, which will speak for themselves, 
would seem to be an undesirable waste of space. And yet, though the 
number of papers read betokens no inactivity on the part of a few, your 
Council could have wished that the annual Part of your Journal con- 
tained a greater number of communications from our home workers. 
Your Council thinks that the Society could act in no way more wisely 
or more for its scientific advancement than by bestowing attention 
to the publication department, and by allocating as large a proportion 
of the funds as possible to the efficient and creditable bringing out of 
the Society’s Journal, as regards both illustrations and extent. Original 
observers will not be induced to bring their communications before the 
Society, should they require illustrations, unless the Society will be 
able to bring them out in the requisite effective manner. Your Council 
thinks, therefore, that it would be but right and proper to enlarge the 
expenditure on publication as far as possible, and thus endeavour to 
raise the Society in the scale of similar institutions in other parts of the 
world where our peculiar field of science is cultivated. Twenty Papers 
or communications, of which ten were zoological and ten botanical, 
were read during the last session The zoological were entitled as 
follow :—‘ Zoological Notes,’ by William Andrews, V.P., M.R.I.A.; 
‘On the Occurrence of Bothryocephalus latus in Ireland,’ by Dr. W. 
Frazer ; ‘On some Larva Cases from Australia, by Dr. Alexander 
Macalister; ‘ Notes on a Species of Tapeworm, Zenia mediocannellata, 
new to Ireland,’ by Dr. W. Frazer, M. R. I. As; ‘On the Skeleton of 
the Rosehill Parrokeet, Platycercus exinwus,’ ‘by Dr. John Barker, 
M.R.1I.A.; ‘On the Occurrence of the Spotted Redshank and Wild 
Swan at Killala Bay,’ by Robert Warren, Jun.; ‘Some desultory 
Remarks on certain Freshwater Rhizopoda, with Desuriptien of some 
New Species, three of which form types of as many new genera in the 
Radiolaria,’ by William Archer; ‘On the Stinging Properties of the 
Physalia or Portuguese Man-of-war,’ by Dr. A. W. Foot. The botanical 
Papers were:—‘ Notes of a Botanical Tour in the South of Ireland,’ by 
Dr. E. Perceval Wright, F. L.S.; ‘ Description of Some New and Rare 
Diatomaceze, found in dredgings made by Dr. E. Perceval Wright off the 
Arran Islands’ (Series I.), by Rev. Eugene O’Meara, A.M.; ‘On a 
New Station for Hymenophyllum Wilsont and H. Tunbridgense,’ by F. J. 
Foot, M. A.; ‘Record of the Occurrence of Hriophorum alpinum in the 
county Cork, and of Acorus calamus near Belfast,’ by D. Moore, Ph. D., 
F.L.8.; ‘Remarks on the Genera Zygogonium (de Bary), and Zy- 
gogonium (Kiitz.), with Description of the Conjugated State of the 
Plant, believed to be identical with Zygogonium leve (Kitz.), but 
which is referrible rather to the genus Mougeotia (de Bary, non Agardh)’, 
by William Archer; ‘On two New Species in Saprolegniez, referrible 
the one to the genus Saprolegnia (Nees von Esenb.), and the other to 
Achlya (Nees von Esenb.),’ by William Archer; ‘Description of New 
Species of Diatomacese, from Arran Islands’ (Series II.), by Rev. E. 
O’Meara, A. M.; ‘ Further Addenda to Irish Muscology,’ by D. Moore, 
