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Lastly, one-fifth of the special marks will he reserved for collections 
of native plants, fairly dried, and which have been collected, examined, 
and correctly named, by the Candidate, during the preceding year. This 
collection not to be restricted to plants of the above Orders, but to com¬ 
prise the greatest number of species which the Candidate can obtain. 
The name of Genus and Species, and of the natural Order to which it 
belongs, to be affixed to each specimen. 
At the conclusion of his address Mr. Haughton reminded the members, 
many of whom were undergraduates, of the advantages now opened to 
them by the College lectures on Zoology, Geology, Chemistry, and 
Physics, and of the high reward now for the first time offered to the 
study of Zoology and Botany in the University of Dublin. The title of 
Gold Medallist of the University of Dublin was one which he hoped 
would always be a high distinction for a young man to attain to ; and 
he felt confident that among the young naturalists he had the pleasure of 
addressing, there were some who, if honored with such distinction for 
their zoological and botanical knowledge, would eventually prove them¬ 
selves as worthy of that title as the best mathematicians and scholars 
this University had ever produced. 
The Secretary read a paper, entitled— 
NOTE OF THE OCCUBEENCE OF THE HYPEEOODON BUTZKOPF (BOTTLE-NOSED 
whale). BY EOBEET PATTEESON, M.E.I.A. 
On the 22nd September, 1857, a whale of this species was captured on 
the southern shore of Belfast Bay, in one of the channels between Bel¬ 
fast and Holywood. I had the opportunity of seeing it on the ensuing 
day; and afterwards, by the kind co-operation of Mr. Bichard Allen, 
Assistant Engineer to the Harbour Commissioners, ascertained its di¬ 
mensions. 
Mr. Thompson has recorded (“Natural History of Ireland,” vol. iv.) 
the occurrence of this species of whale in the same Bay on two former 
occasions. The first was taken at Ballyholme, near the entrance to Bel¬ 
fast Bay, on the 16th September, 1839; the second at Cultra, on the 
29th October, 1845. That taken on the 22nd September, 1857, was the 
third in the space of eight years. All three were killed on the county of 
Down shore of the Bay, and at nearly the same season of the year. 
The measurements of the Cultra specimen of 1845 are republished 
here, that they may be compared with those of the more recent capture. 
The former was a male ; the latter, a female. The dimensions are very 
similar. The stomachs of both contained the beaks of cuttle-fishes. 
Po ur teeth were found in the Cultra specimen, the skull of which is pre¬ 
served in the Belfast Museum; two only were detected by Professor 
Dickie in that of the other. The weight of the Hyperoodon of 1857 was 
2 A tons; the quantity of oil produced was 90 gallons. 
vol. v.— peoc. soc. 
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