DUBLIN UNIVEESITY ZOOLOOICAL AND BOTANICAL ASSOCIATION. 47 
the scene of their labours, by a fate which, judged of by human reason 
only, must be considered premature. He was happy to inform them 
that a memoir of their late President, written by Mr. R. Patterson, of 
Belfast, would be shortly placed in their hands. At the close of the 
preceding session Hr. Harvey had commented upon the loss sustained 
by them in the death of their late President. On this melancholy sub¬ 
ject there could be no difference of opinion; but though their fellow- 
labourers had passed from their mortal vision, let them not be banished 
from their kindly recollections, and let the example they had set of zeal 
in the pursuit of science ever animate their successors and followers. 
During the meeting of the British Association in Dublin, this Associa¬ 
tion had been well and efficiently represented in Section D by Mr. E. 
Percival Wright’s highly interesting and valuable description of the 
blind Lipura of the Mitchelstown Caves; by Mr. Greene, in his description 
of seven new naked-eyed Acalephee of the Dublin coast; by the Rev. 
Eugene O’Meara’s paper on the Diatomacese occurring in chalk; and, 
lastly, by Dr. Kinahan’s elaborate and most valuable analysis of certain 
genera of terrestrial Isopoda. The foregoing papers formed a list, in 
Mr. Haughton’s opinion, which would be highly creditable to the mem¬ 
bers of any society, and afforded good grounds of hope for the future 
fame of many of their junior members and associates. Among these 
papers there was only one which touched on Palaeontology, a defect for 
which Mr. Haughton confessed himself somewhat to blame, and which 
he hoped would be rectified in future years. With regard to their 
prospects of papers for the coming winter, the Association might reckon 
with confidence on the entomological stores of Mr. Haliday, the botani¬ 
cal reserves of Dr. Harvey, the accumulated wealth of the College Mu¬ 
seum, zoological and geological, in displaying which before them they 
might reckon on the zeal of the present Director of the Museum and him¬ 
self. These would, undoubtedly, form the staple of their contributions, 
not to be called for unless other papers were wanting, but sufficient to 
fill up all gaps, and render every meeting of the Association interesting 
and instructive. At the conclusion of his address, Professor Haughton 
laid before the meeting the arrangements of the Board of Trinity College, 
by virtue of which Zoology and Botany were raised to the rank of the 
studies of the University, and incorporated with Physics, Chemistry, and 
Geology in one Moderatorship, to be called the Moderatorship in Ex¬ 
perimental and Natural Science. The Moderatorship in Experimental 
Science was founded in 1851, and after the experience of seven years 
had been found to work so well that the authorities of the College had 
decided on giving the same encouragement to the study of the natural 
sciences among the students of the University. The following is the 
course of study prescribed for the year 1858, in the several branches of 
Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Zoology, and Botany:— 
MODEEATOESHIPS IN EXPEEIMENTAL AND NATUEAL SCIENCES. 
The following has been appointed for the Examination as a perma¬ 
nent Course of study; in addition to which special practical studies will 
