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PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
Dr. Butcher returned thanks on behalf of Dr. Wall, and promised to 
convey to him the President’s message. 
The President then called upon Dr. Beeves, and said- 
“ I have no small pleasure, Dr. Beeves, in presenting to you this 
well merited reward of your labours. Accept it as a testimony from this 
Academy to the great value of your writings, not only from their in¬ 
trinsic merit, and the additions they have made to our historical and 
antiquarian knowledge, hut from the tone and style in which they are 
composed, which render them models to he imitated by all who would 
labour with profit to themselves and others in the same field of learning.” 
Dr. Beeves returned thanks. 
A vote of thanks to the President for his Address was proposed by 
his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, seconded by Sir William Bo wan 
Hamilton, and passed unanimously. 
The Academy then adjourned. 
DUBLIN UNIVEBSITY ZOOLOGICAL AND BOTANICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1858. 
Bobert Harrison, M. D., Professor of Anatomy and Lecturer in 
Zoology, in the Chair. 
The Minutes of last Meeting having been read, were approved of, and 
signed by the Chairman. 
The following paper was read by William Archer, M. B. D. S.:— 
SUPPLEMENTARY CATALOGUE OF DESMIDIACEiE FOUND IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD 
OF DUBLINJ WITH DESCRIPTION AND FIGURES OF A PROPOSED NEW GENUS 
AND OF FOUR NEW SPECIES. 
On a former occasion I had the pleasure to read to this Association a 
Catalogue of Desmidiacese found by me in the neighbourhood of this 
city, which the Council did me the honour to print in the Proceedings. 
It is now my privilege to be permitted to follow up that list with a sup¬ 
plementary one, containing such additional species as resulted from some 
gatherings made during the last summer, and, in addition to the species 
hereafter to be enumerated, which are contained in Balfs’ “ British 
Desmidiae,” to bring to notice and to describe four new species ; and, 
although two of them are very minute, and the others not so striking as 
many of the other members of this interesting group, I do so with the 
hope that these additions to our Elora may be to some not without their 
interest. 
