402 



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III. An Account of a Peculiarity not hitherto described in tJie Ankle, or 

 Hock-joint, of the Horse ; loith Remarks on the Stmcture of the 



VertebrcB in the species of Whale, entitled Helphinus Diodon. By 

 Robert J. Graves, M. D., M. R. I. A., King's Professor of the 

 Institutes of Medicine, Honorary Member of the Royal Medical 

 Society of Berlin, of the Medical Association of Hamburgh, 8^c. Sfc. 

 Read July 5, 1830 85 



IV. Second Supplement to an Essay on the Theory of Systems of Rays. 

 By William R. Hamilton, Royal Asfrotiomer of Ireland, ^c. ^c. 

 Read October 25, 1 830 93 



\. Notice of a new Indigenous Heath, foicnd in Cunnamara. By 

 JamesTownsendMackay, M.R.I.A., A.L.S. Read Nov. 30, 1 830 li27 



VI. Note to a Paper on the Error of a received Principle of Analysis. 



By William R. Hamilton, &c. Read April 18, 1831. 120 



POLITE LITERATURE. 



I. Subject proposed by the Royal Irish Academy, to investigate tJ^e 



Authenticity of the Poems of Ossian, both as given in Macpher- 

 son* s translation, and as published in Gaelic, London, 1807, ^m- 

 der the sanction of the Highland Society of London ; and, on the 

 supposition of such Poems not being of recent origin, to assign the 

 probable Era and Country of the original Poet or Poets. A Prize 

 Essay. By William Hamilton Drummond, D. D., M. R. I. A., 

 Read May 25, 1829 3 



II. A Prize Essay on tJie same subject. By Edward O'Reilly, Esq. 



Read May 25, 1829 •^^'nftV^•«^•*\^% -.V^xw^vrflSS-rlGa 



ANTIQUITIES. 



I. Remarks on the History and Authenticity of the Autograph Oi-igi- 

 nal of tlie Annals of the Four Masters, now deposited in tlie Li- 

 brary of the Royal Irish Academy. By George Petrie, Esq. 

 R. H. A., M. R. L A., &c. Read March 16, 1831 381 



