PROCEEDINGS 
OF 
THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. 
NovemsBer 1417, 1853. 
HUMPHREY LLOYD, D.D., Vice-PRresipEnrT, 
in the Chair. 
Tue Secretary announced the bequest of books and manu- 
scripts made to the Academy by the late William Elliott 
Hudson, Esq., M. R. I. A.; and also the donation of his Bust 
by Moore, presented by his Executors. 
Resotvep,—That the thanks of the Academy be pre- 
sented to the Executors of the late William E, Hudson, Esq, 
for their donation of his Bust, and that the Academy enter- 
tain the highest sense of the value of the bequest left by Mr. 
Hudson to the Academy. 
Resotvep,—That the bust of the late W. E. Hudson, 
Esq., be placed in the Library, as a mark of respect to his 
memory, and of gratitude for the bequest with which he has 
enriched the Library of the Academy. 
The Rev. Charles Graves, D. D., read a paper on the so- 
lution of linear differential equations. 
The object of the present paper is to contribute to our 
knowledge of the soluble forms of linear differential equations. 
The left-hand member of the equation 
Dry + AD y+ By..= X 
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