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Monpay, NovemMsBer 127n, 1855. 
THOMAS ROMNEY ROBINSON, D.D., Presipent, 
in the Chair. 
Epwarp Wricut, LL. D., was elected a Member of the 
_ Academy. 
Dr. Petrie having, at the request of the President, re- 
ported the donation, by Mrs. Thomas Moore, of the Library of 
the late Mr. Moore :— 
On the recommendation of the Council, it was Resolved, by 
acclamation :— 
That the marked thanks of the Academy are due and are 
hereby given to Mrs. Moore, for her liberal and important 
donation to the Academy. 
‘ 
. The_President announced to the Academy that the annual 
_ Parliamentary grant had been increased from £300 to £500 
_ per annum. 
The Secretary to the Council read the following papers :—. 
On the Early Discovery and extensive Adoption of the 
_ Bissextile Intercalation; with a view to determine the nature 
ofthe ancient Year. By the Rev. F. Nolan, LL.D., F.R.S. 
After some general remarks on the natural division of the 
_ year by the vicissitude of the seasons, the difficulty which the 
_ author aims at removing is stated. The hypothesis of those 
learned persons who have laboured to prove that the ancient 
_ year consisted but of 360 days is first described, and some ob- 
- jections to which it is exposed are specified. The antiquity 
and general reception of the quadrennial intercalation is then 
_ asserted, and declared to contain a refutation of the false as- 
_ sumption that a year of such limited dimensions could have 
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