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15th of October, 1683, to the end of 1687, after which we 
have not been able to discover any record of its proceedings 
from these sources. 
‘¢ The principal papers read to this body, all of which are 
enumerated in the Minutes, were either printed in the Philo- 
sophical Transactions, or formed the material for distinct 
works or monographs, which were published by their respec- 
tive authors, and many of the communications were delivered 
in form of vivd voce discourses at one sitting, and debated at 
the next. 
‘«¢ There are two manuscript volumes of county histories in 
the library of the University of Dublin (from which the His- 
tory of West Connaught is now about to be printed by the 
Irish Archzological Society), which have generally been 
supposed to have formed part of the Transactions of the 
Philosophical Society ; but as some of the papers in these are 
dated in 1682, prior to the creation of that body, and as we 
have no notice or allusion made to any of them in the Minutes 
of the Society, which are in every other respect so full and 
explicit, we feel assured that they were written and intended 
for the general survey of Ireland under Sir William Petty. 
«¢ Dr. Plot was desired to acquaint the Provost of Trinity 
College that the Royal Society very willingly embraced the 
correspondence of the Society in Dublin, and had ordered 
their secretary to write to themin the manner proposed ; ac- 
cordingly, Mr. Aston wrote to Mr. Molyneaux to that effect, a 
letter, dated the 26th of February, 1684, which is inserted in the 
unpublished Letter Book of the Royal Society, (vol. ix. p. 111). 
«This courtesy of the Royal Society is alluded to in one of 
the letters of William Molyneaux to his brother Thomas, then 
residing in Holland, a portion of which I extract from the 
interesting correspondence of those gentlemen, which I pub- 
lished some years ago in the University Magazine.—‘I know,’ 
says William Molyneaux, ‘you would willingly hear what 
has become of our meeting here in Dublin, of which take this 
