~ PROCEEDINGS 
OF 
THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. 
1846-7. No. 59. 
January 11th, 1847. 
REV. HUMPHREY LLOYD, D.D., President, in the 
Chair. 
William Brooke, Esq., Q.C.; Dominick Corrigan, M. D.; 
Leonard Dobbin, Esq.; Michael Donovan, Esq. ; Charles Hali- 
day, Esq. ; William Neilson Hancock, Esq.; John Kells In- 
gram, Esq., F.T.C.D.; Charles P. Mac Donnell, Esq.; Right 
Hon. Louis Perrin; and Frederick John Sidney, Esq., were 
elected Members of the Academy. 
On the recommendation of Council the following By-laws 
were adopted by the Academy : 
‘1. That the number of Honorary Members of the 
Academy shall be limited to sixty. 
*©2. That there shall be three Sections of Honorary 
_ Members, corresponding to the threefold objects of the Aca- 
_ demy, and that the numbers in each Section shall be limited 
as follows : 
** Section of Science, 30; of Literature, 15; of Antiqui- 
ties, 15; = 60. 
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