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March 16. (Stated Meeting.) 



Rev. B. LLOYD, D. D., Provost T. C. D., Presideot, 

 in the Chair. 



This being the day of the annual election, the following 

 Officers and Members of Council were chosen for the en- 

 suing year : 



President — Rev. Bartholomew Lloyd, D. D. 



Treasurer — Thomas Herbert Orpen, M. D. 



Secretary — Rev. Joseph Henderson Singer, D. D. 



Secretary to Council — Rev. Richard Mac Donnell, D. D. 



Secretary of Foreign Correspondence — Sir Wm. Betham. 



Librarian — Rev. William Hamilton Drummond, D. D. 



Committee of Science. 



Rev. Franc Sadleir, D. D., Rev. Richard Mac Donnell, 

 D. D., Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Rev. Humphrey Lloyd, 

 James Apjohn, M. D., James Mac CuUagh, Esq., Captain 

 Portlock, R. E. 



Committee of Polite Literature, 



The Archbishop of Dublin, Rev. Joseph Henderson 

 Singer, D. D., Andrew Carmichael, Esq., Samuel Litton, 

 M. D., Rev. William Hamilton Drummond, D. D., Rev. 

 Charles Richard Elrington, D. D., WilHam West, M. D. 



Committee of Antiquities, 

 Rev. James Henthorn Todd, Thomas Herbert Orpen, 

 M. D., Hugh Ferguson, M. D., Sir William Betham, George 

 Petrie, Esq., Rev. Caesar Otway, Dean of St. Patrick's. 



Professor Kane read a paper, entitled *' Researches on 

 the Combinations derived from Pyroacetic Spirit." 



In order to understand the relation between the following 

 bodies and pyroacetic spirit, the atomic weight of the latter 



