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The President nominated, under his hand and seal, the following 
Vice-Presidents:—Rev. Humphrey Lloyd, D.D., Rev. William Reeves, 
D.D., Rev. George Salmon, M. A., John Hells Ingram, LL. D. 
It was Resolved, on the recommendation of the Council:— 
1 . That the regular publication of our Transactions is absolutely es¬ 
sential to the welfare of the Academy. 
2 . That, in order to enable the Council to carry on this important 
work without interruption, it be recommended to the Academy to suspend, 
for the present, the Annual Grants of £100, each, to the Library and 
Museum, there being no other funds available for the purpose. 
3 . That the amount of the Grants annually voted to the increase of 
the Library and Museum be regulated by the funds in hands, after pay¬ 
ing for the publication of the Transactions. 
An Address to His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, on his return to 
Ireland, was read and adopted. 
DUBLIN UNIVERSITY ZOOLOGICAL AND BOTANICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15, 1858. 
Professor W. H. Harvey, M. D., E. L. S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The Minutes of last General Meeting having been read, were approved 
of, and signed by the Chairman. 
The Rev. Eugene O’Meara read the following—- 
catalogue oe diatomacehj collected in powerscourt, county of 
WICKLOW. 
The excursion of the Association of July 1857 , may still be in the recol¬ 
lection of the Members. "We assembled to an early breakfast, at the resi¬ 
dences of our then SeniorVice-President (now our esteemed President), and 
of one of our Honorary Secretaries. Having done j ustice to the hospitality 
provided for us, we prepared for a drive of some ten or twelve miles 
ere the proper business of the day could begin. Headed by Professor 
Harvey, who took the lead of the botanists; Mr. Haliday, who reigned 
supreme among the entomologists; and Mr. Du Noyer, who kindly 
commanded the army of geologists,—we drove along the pretty mountain 
road that leads to the village of Enniskerry. The morning was all that 
could be desired: a clear blue sky above us faded off in the horizon into 
a pale white mist, that gave promise of a glorious day. Dublin Bay 
glittered beneath our feet, sparkling with the rays of a July sun. In 
about an hour we drove through the Scalp, one of the geological at¬ 
tractions of the county of Dublin, and in half an hour more we entered 
