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Monpnay, January 26TH, 1852. 
THOMAS ROMNEY ROBINSON, D.D., ers, 
in the Chair. 
On the recommendation of the Council, it was resolved : 
That in place of chapter viii., section 6, of the By-Laws, 
the following be substituted : 
‘¢ Papers read, and other business previously arranged by 
the Council transacted.” 
The Secretary read a letter from Messrs. Waterhouse and 
Co., presenting to the Academy two drawings by Mr. Wat- 
son, on a large scale, of the ancient brooch in their possession. 
Sir William Betham presented a fragment of an alabaster 
hand found near Monkstown. 
Lord Talbot de Malahide presented a very ancient bronze 
bell, said to have been found near Tuam. 
Mr. Mallet read a Paper on the Results of the Discussion 
of the Great Earthquake Catalogue, prepared by the command 
of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 
He exhibited diagrams to the Academy discussing by 
curves the distribution in time and space of all recorded earth- 
quakes, which have been collected in the great Catalogue of 
Earthquakes, prepared by command ofthe British Association 
for the Advancement of Science, embracing the whole histori- 
cal period down to the end of the year 1850, and comprising 
about six thousand single earthquakes. 
He stated the methods and precautions adopted in form- 
ing this large Catalogue, whose distribution is tabular. And 
- from this, the largest basis of induction yet produced on the 
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