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and Terror. It has been already proved by the set of the 
tides that there is a water communication in this area. 
It is proposed by Captain M‘Clintock to make his way 
down Prince Regent’s Inlet, and thence through Bellot’s 
Strait, into the field of search ; or to attack it directly, if the 
ice permits, by going down Peel Sound, which he has 
good reasons for believing to be a strait. If prevented by 
the ice from passing through Bellot’s Strait, or going down 
Peel Strait, he will abandon the idea of taking the ship through 
the supposed north-west passage, and, leaving her in safety in 
Prince Regent’s Inlet, will proceed to make the requisite search 
for the Erebus and Terror by sledging parties, so successfully 
used in the late expeditions, and in conducting which Captain 
M‘Clintock particularly distinguished himself. 
Professor Haughton concluded his statement by proposing 
the following Resolution :— 
** That an Address be forwarded by the President, in the. 
name of the Royal Irish Academy, to Lord Palmerston, pray- 
ing him to give the consent of her Majesty’s Government to 
the use of the Resolute by Lady Franklin’s expedition, and 
of such Government stores as may be requisite for the full and 
efficient equipment of that expedition.” 
This Resolution was seconded by the Right Hon. Joseph 
Napier, M.P. for the University of Dublin, and carried una- 
nimously by a crowded meeting, which appeared to take the 
liveliest interest in the success of the expedition. 
Sir. W. R. Hamilton, LL. D., moved, and W. R. Wilde, 
Esq., seconded, the following Resolution, which was also 
adopted : — 
‘That the Seal of the Academy be affixed to the 
Address.” 
A ballot having taken place to supply the two vacancies 
in the Council, caused bythe death of the late Treasurer, Robert 
