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Monpay, May 141x, 1855. 
GEORGE PETRIE, LL. D., Vicse-PresipEent, 
in the Chair. 
Epmunp Wim Davy, Esq., M. B., was elected a Mem- 
ber of the Academy. 
The Secretary of the Academy read the following Answer 
of His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant to the Address adopted 
by the Academy at the last meeting :-— 
«¢ GENTLEMEN, 
‘**T request the President, Council, and Members of 
the Royal Irish Academy, to accept my sincere thanks for the 
obliging expressions which they have addressed to me per- 
sonally, as well as officially, upon my arrival in Ireland. 
« T rejoice to find, that since the period of my former ac- 
quaintance with your proceedings, you have obtained a more 
commodious area for their future development; I doubt not 
that your zeal and spirit will keep pace with your enlarged 
local proportions :— 
‘Dignis invitant Pallada templis.’ 
‘<I believe it to be your laudable ambition so to collect, 
preserve, and investigate what has been bequeathed by the 
past, as to make it illustrate the present, and improve the 
future ; this is the beneficent method of making remote gene- 
rations react upon each other, and rendering your contempo- 
raries heirs to the treasures of former knowledge and wisdom, 
and ministers to the continual progress of Literature, Science, 
and Art. 
«‘T earnestly trust that such a course will be long reserved, 
amidst the increasing repose and prosperity of your country, 
for the Royal Irish Academy.” 
