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Monpay, JANuary 121TH, 1852. 
JOHN ANSTER, LL.D., V.P., in the Chair. 
JoseruH Dickenson, M.D., Joseph Beete Jukes, Esq., Tho- 
mas T. Kelly, Esq., and George Roe, Esq., were elected 
Members of the Academy. 
Rev. Humphrey Lloyd, V.P., on the part of Maurice 
O'Connell, Esq., presented a collection of Meteorological Ob- 
servations made at Darrynane Abbey in the years 1845 and 
1846. He also explained that the views he had put forward 
| respecting the influence of the Gulf Stream upon the climate 
: of Ireland, had been entertained by the late Daniel O’Connell, 
Esq., who had noticed the more frequent arrival, during late 
years, of West Indian seeds, &c., upon the south-western 
coast of Ireland. 
The Secretary of Council presented the following dona- 
tions to the Museum : 
A small frying-pan, found in the ford of the river Suck, 
near Corneen Castle, Ballinasloe, together with a quantity of _ 
the horns and other bones of deer. Presented by William T. 
Potts, Esq. 
Four limpets, found with many others, in anancient struc- 
ture called the Giant’s Grave, on the edge of Lough Aun, 
County Mayo, 700 feet above the level of the sea, Presented 
by Richard Glennan, Esq. 
The Secretary of Council read the following letter from 
Dr. Griffin, of Limerick : : 
Limerick, November 26, 1851. 
My pear Sir,—Lord Dunraven requested me, some time 
since, to send you in a brief form the principal facts connected 
with the Limerick whirlwind of October 5th, 1851, that you 
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