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The Treasurer (Dr. MacDowel Cosgrave) seconded the adoption of 
the Report. The balance in hand of l^i(> at the beginning of 1913 has 
been replaced by a debt of ;^88 at the end of the year, during which expendi- 
ture was very heavy, including ;^4o8 for purchase of animals,^;^i,220 for 
provisions, £l.,^^^ for salaries and wages, and ;^925 for new buildings. 
The Report and Statement of Accounts were then adopted. 
The President presented the Society's silver medal for the best set of 
photographs taken in the Gardens during the year to W. N. Allen ; a 
special bronze medal was awarded to H. Hanna, K.C. On the motion of 
the President, General the Hon. Sir Neville Lyttleton, G.C.B., was elected 
an Honorary Member of the Society. The Officers and Council for 1914 
were then chosen, M. F. Headlam, S. F. Cochrane, and J. Laidlaw filling 
the usual three vacancies caused by retirement. At the subsequent 
Council Meeting Dr. R. F. Scharff was elected a Permanent Vice-President 
of the Society, having served continuously on the Council for twenty -two 
years, during eight of which he acted as honorary secretary. 
Professor J. A. Scott described the principal events of the year at the 
Zoological Gardens, showing in illustration an excellent series of lantern 
slides and some cinematograph films. 
A young female Gorilla, with a small male Chimpanzee as its companion, 
was bought immediately after the Annual Meeting. The Gorilla is by far 
the scarcest of the Anthropoid Apes in captivity, and this specimen, 
believed at present to be the only member of its species in Europe, is 
exceptionally healthy and friendly. Those interested in the animals 
which approach Man most nearly in structure should not miss the oppor- 
tunity now afforded them of seeing in the Dublin Monkey -house a Gorilla, 
three Chimpanzees, ana an Orang-utan. 
DUBLIN MICROSCOPICAL CLUB. 
January 14. — The Club met at Leinster House. 
D. M'Ardle (Vice-President) in the chair, showed the cell structure of 
Pleurozia cochleariformis ; on account of the large hyaline trigones and 
deep red or purple colour of the cell walls it is an attractive object. The 
priaciDal exhibit was the lobule which is attached to the lower portion 
of the leaves ; it is ovate -utriculate in shape, and besides containing a 
supply of moisture for this large liverwort, which often grows in exposed 
places, it has one of the most remarkable contrivances for catching small 
insects it is possible to imagine. On the inner face of the lobule is a deep 
fold having at the base a slit with two decurrent wings which hang free 
within, one of these is concave at the base ; beneath the slit (the only 
entrance which an insect can creep through) the lid opens with the 
slightest pressure and closes after the prisoner has been secured ; the 
remains of insects are frequently found in these lobules. A portion of 
the tissue over the trap was raised off with the dissecting knife to show 
the lid, which is formed of the most delicate tissue. A drawing of the 
