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PKOCEEDINGS OE SOCIETIES. 
tration of the Natural History of Ireland, and affording every Irish 
naturalist a medium by means of which Irish discovery can be registered 
on Irish ground—a field of labour just as necessary now as when this 
Society was started, as no other Society or Museum in this country is 
devoted exclusively to the study of Irish Natural History; and the nu¬ 
merous discoveries made through means of this Society prove, if proof 
were necessary, the full value of such local labour. 
That during the several years of its existence, this Society’s labours 
have not been without their fruit, the following brief summary of a few 
of the notices of species read before your Meetings since your founda¬ 
tion abundantly prove, and the list might be much increased:— 
lx Zoology. —Yertebrata, forty-two species. 
New to Ireland:—Mammals, two :—Vespertilio Naterreri, 1845; 
Yespertilio mysta-cinus, 1853. 
Birds, six:—Merula Whitei, 1842; Sterna leucoptera, 1844; 
Puffinus obscurus, 1853; Larus minutus, 1840; Tringa rufescens, 
1844; Malocorhynchus membranaceus, 1853. 
Reptiles, one:—Caretta caouana, 1849. 
Fishes, six:—Orthagoriscus mola, 1839; Orthagoriscus oblongus, 
1845; Cottus Groenlandicus, 1850; Sebastes Norvegicus, 1850; Poly¬ 
prion cernium, 1855; Tetraodon Pennantii, 1852. 
Of the Mollusca, twenty-three :— 
New to Ireland, eleven:—Geomalacus maculosus, 1842; Amphi- 
peplea glutinosa, 1844; Pholadidea papyracea, 1850; Pholas striata, 
1845; Limneus glaber, 1845; Spirula Peronii, 1845; Bulla hydatis, 
1845 ; Teredo Norvagica. 
Polyzoa, three new species of Plumatella. 
Of Articulata, twenty-one. 
New to Ireland:— 
Insects:—Discomyza incurva, 1854; Hydrelia Banksiana, 1854. 
Crustacea:—Portunus marmoreus, 1845; Thia polita, 1845; Por- 
tunus carcinoides, 1856 ; Pagurus Eblanensis, 1857; Galathea An- 
drewsii, 1857; Crangon Allmanni, 1857; Crangon trispinosus, 1857; 
Ilippolyte pusiola, 1857; Hippolyte Mitchellii, 1857; Alpheus ruber, 
1857; Iphimedia Eblanse, 1857; Apseudes talpa, 1857. 
Yermes:—Eunice tubicola, 1855. 
Of Radiata, &c., seven; all new to Ireland. 
Ix Botaxy. —Erica ciliaris, Potentilla floribunda, Arabis Crantziana, 
Lonicera xylosteum, Saxifraga Andrewsii, Spircea filipendula, Simethis 
albus, Allium Babingtonii, Equisetum elongatum, Lophodium spinosum, 
Morchella esculenta., Polyporus betululinus, Nitella hyalina, Chara deli- 
catula, Riccia natans, Riccia fluitans, Berkeleyana fragilis, Chordaria 
divaricata, Enteromorpha Hopkirkii, Tetraspora cylindrica, Staurocarpus 
cserulescens, &c. So that the positive number of additional species 
given to the world through this medium far exceeds 100. 
These results cannot but be looked on as bearing your Council out 
in stating that the Natukal Histqey Society of Dublin has indeed 
