PROCEEDINGS 
OF 
THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. 
1846-7. No. 69. 
June 28th, 1847. 
REV. HUMPHREY LLOYD, D.D., President, in the 
Chair. 
His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin was elected a Mem- 
ber of Council, on the Committee of Polite Literature. 
Ir was Resotvep,—That the sum of £50 be placed at 
the disposal of the Council, for the purchase of antiquities. 
The Secretary read the draft of an Address to His Excel- 
lency the Lord Lieutenant, which had been ordered at the 
last Meeting. 
Resotvep,—That the Address now read be adopted by 
the Academy. 
John Anster, LL.D., read a paper by the Rev. James 
Wills, in continuation of his former papers on ‘ the Associa- 
tion of Ideas.” 
The author commenced by stating, that, according to the 
view to which he had been led, the subject might be divi- 
ded under three heads of inquiry :—the class of associations 
formed by habits of action and perception, as described in his 
first Essay ; those from accidental association, explained in 
the second ; and those next to be considered, originating in the 
mind itself. From the first he had endeavoured to trace the 
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