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PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
against which, the expenditure has been £70 25. lid., leaving a balance 
of £5 11 s. 4 d. due to the Treasurer. He also reported that there were 
£79 to the credit of the reserve fund, which was an'increase of £21 
since the previous session, and that'subscriptions to the amount of 
£28 were due by members. 
This Eeport having been adopted, the ballot for officers next closed, 
and the Chairman declared the following duly elected for the Session 
1857-58:— 
President.— William H. Harvey, M. 3)., P. L. S., M. E. I. A. 
Vice-Presidents. —His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, Lord Tal¬ 
bot de Malahide, M.E.I. A., Sir Edward E. Borough, Bart., M. E.I.A., 
C. P. Croker, M. D., M. E. I. A. 
Council.— John Aldridge, M. D., M. E. I. A., Henry M. Barton, E. 
W. Brady, Eobert Callwell, M. E. I. A., James E. Dombrain, A. H. 
Haliday, M. E. I. A., E.L.S, Samuel Gordon, M. D., M.E. I. A., Eev. 
S. Haughton, E,T C.D., M.E. I. A., Eobert J. Montgomery, George B. 
Owens, M. D., Gilbert Sanders, M.E. I. A., Joseph Todhunter, E. Per- 
cival Wright, M. E. I. A. 
Treasurer.— Eichard P. Williams, M. E. I. A. 
Secretaries. —Wm. Andrews, M.E. I. A., John E. Kinahan, M.B., 
M. E. I. A. 
The Meeting having been made special for election of Members, after 
due ballot Willian Archer, Esq., 50, Upper Sackville-street, was de¬ 
clared duly elected as an Ordinary Member of the Society. 
The Meeting then adjourned to the 4th of December. 
The following Paper by the Eev. Professor Haughton was omitted 
from the Proceedings of Eebruary 13, 1857 :— 
on the genus euomphalus,* and its relations to pleurotomaria and 
the haliotidje. with two plates. 
The Palaeozoic genus Euomphalus is one that has given much trouble to 
palaeontologists, in consequence of their hesitation to give the same names 
to genera of the secondary and Palaeozoic periods, and also in conse¬ 
quence of serious variations in the different fossils that have been called 
by this name. Thus, it would be very difficult to state in what essen¬ 
tial particulars the Euomphalus of Sowerby differs from the Straparolus 
of Montfort, and both from the common Solarium of Lamarck. M. 
D’Orbigny characterizes Solarium by its quadrangular or rounded 
mouth, the umbilic mostly crenulated on the rim; and Straparolus 
by its round or square spines, not crenulated on the rim of the umbilic. 
M. Pictet justly observes that this crenulation of the rim of the umbilic 
is not a constant character in Solarium, being, in fact, almost peculiar 
to the Tertiary species; while in the Cretaceous epoch there are only 
two or three species with the rim of the umbilic crenulated. I may add 
to this, that the well-known ^Euomphalus pugilis has the crenulation of 
