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PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
1. An iron spear-head found in the county of Fermanagh. Pre¬ 
sented by Miss Eichardson. 
2. A small cinerary urn, found near Cabinteely, on the land of the 
donor. It was discovered in the centre of a small chamber filled with 
a mixture of clay, and bone-dnst, and covered with a large flag, and about 
two feet of earth. Presented by J. H. Jessop, Esq. 
3. A small glass bottle, found in Ardglass, county of Down. Pre¬ 
sented by Eev. J. H. Todd, D. D., President. 
4. Five modern Indian coins, and a small ingot of silver. Presented 
bv William Kennedy, Esq. 
5. Several copies of the new Index to the Ordnance Map of Ire¬ 
land, in the scale of one inch to the statute mile, showing the state of 
publication on the 30th of November, 1857. Presented by Captain 
Leach. 
DUBLIN UNIVEKSITY ZOOLOGICAL AND BOTANICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1857. 
Eev. Professor Haughton, F.T.C.D., Yice-President, in the Chair. 
The Chairman having congratulated the Association upon their past 
progress, and expressed his sanguine hopes of their future success and 
permanence, founded upon the fact that this Association secured its 
members at their entrance into life, and bound them to its service by 
all the kindly recollections which every true son must bear through life 
to his Alma Mater,—passed a brief eulogy on their late deeply lamented 
President, Dr. Ball, and then reviewed rapidly the papers read before the 
Association during the past season, and published in the fourth volume of 
the “NaturalHistoryEeview.” 
Among the more valuable of the papers mentioned were Dr. Harvey’s 
description and figures of new British Algae; Mr. Haliday’s valuable addi¬ 
tions to various branches of entomological science, including descriptions 
of a new genus and species of Diapridse, and some valuable hints for 
observers as to the lacunae yet remaining unfilled in the ranks of the 
native Diptera; Mr. Archer’s interesting list of Desmidiacese from the 
neighbourhood of Dublin; Mr. Warren’s list of the Natatores of Killala; 
and Mr. Greene’s Acalephae of the Dublin coast. Among the more po¬ 
pular of the papers, Mr. Haughton specially noticed Dr. Harvey’s account 
of the Cannibals of the Feejee Islands, and Professor Smith’s Botanical 
Eambles in the Pyrenees. The mention of this latter paper reminded 
Mr. Haughton that they, in common with the world of naturalists, had to 
monrn the death of its talented author, as well as that of their well- 
known late President, Dr. Ball, both removed within the past year from 
