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He had also met with that very remarkable and beautiful stalked 
Polyzoon, the Pedicellina Belgica of Van Beneden. Of this he had 
examined two living specimens, both growing upon fronds of Laminaria. 
On the same fronds were several cells of Gemellaria loriculata , a common 
English Polyzoon, of which, strangely enough, no Irish habitat has yet 
been recorded. The figure of Johnston, drawn probably from a dead 
specimen, represents the cells as too much flattened. 
All the above were taken between tide-marks on the sea-shore near 
Trabnlgan, connty of Cork, opposite the residence of Lord Eermoy. 
Here, too, he had also captured a single yonng specimen of the compa¬ 
ratively rare Ur aster Mspida. 
Dr. E. Percival Wright called the attention of the Meeting to the 
Polyzoa noticed to-night. It showed the necessity which existed for 
thoroughly examining this group in Ireland. 
Professor Kinahan, M. D., exhibited a fine specimen of Poly- 
porus gigantea, measuring nearly two feet in thickness; the layers 
of which it was composed covered an extent of surface of nearly two 
feet by nine inches. It was attached to a stem of whitethorn ( Cratcegus 
oxyacantha ), and had been found in the breast of a ditch near Portlaw, 
county of Waterford. He was indebted for the specimen to Miss H. 
Shaw, of Springfield, Portlaw. The specimen illustrated the irregular 
mode of the plant’s growth, and its perennial nature, in a remarkable 
manner. Dr. Kinahan alluded to the great abundance and luxuriance 
of fungi, mosses, and lichens, in and about Curraghmore, county of Wa¬ 
terford, where he had also found Lophodium spinosum growing in some 
abundance. 
The Meeting adjourned to the month of May. 
FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 7, 1858. 
Professor W. H. Harvey, M.D., M.B.I.A., E.L.S., President, 
in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the previous Meeting were read and confirmed. 
Dr. Kinahan read the following recommendation of the Council:— 
“That Robert John Montgomery, Esq., be appointed as Honorary 
Director of the Museum, the Director to be ex-officio on the Council.” 
Moved by Dr. Kinahan, seconded by J. I. Whitty, LL. D., and 
unanimously resolved,—That this recommendation of the Council be 
adopted by the Society. 
Rev. Eugene O’Meara read the following paper— 
ON THE OCCURRENCE OF ANTHOZOIDS IN PLEUROSIGMA SPENCERII. 
On Friday evening, April 30 , I was engaged in the examination 
of a gathering I had made two days previous from a running stream. 
