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Marcu 16TH, 1854. (Stated Meeting.) 
THOMAS ROMNEY ROBINSON, D.D., Presmenr, 
in the Chair. 
M. William Vrolik, of Amsterdam, was elected an Ho- 
norary Member in the Department of Science, and M. Alfred 
de Maury, of Paris, was elected an Honorary Member in the 
Department of Antiquities. 
The Secretary of the Academy read the following Report 
from the Courieil :-— 
REPORT. 
The history of the Academy during the past year has had but 
few events, which may be very briefly told. 
The most important fact to be placed on record is the exhibition 
of our Museum in the Antiquarian Court of the Great Dublin 
Exhibition, in connexion with the Royal Dublin Society, in 1853. 
The very remarkable collection of Irish Antiquities which was 
there brought together formed a most interesting and creditable 
feature of the Exhibition, and attracted a great deal of attention 
from the enlightened antiquarians of Great Britain and of the Con- 
- tinent, who visited Dublin during the past summer. It was also 
most attractive to the general public, and, next to the Picture Gal- 
lery, may be said to have been one of the most popular departments 
of the Exhibition. It is also very gratifying that no loss or injury 
was sustained by anything which the Academy exhibited ; we have 
received the entire collection back without any diminution of its 
value. 
The Council have to congratulate the Academy on the progress 
that has been made in the completion of the noble rooms that will 
now be opened for the reception of our Library and Museum. 
The removal of the Museum into the Exhibition Building dur- 
ing the past summer has necessarily suspended the operations 
of the Committee appointed for the preparation of the Museum 
