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Monpay, NovemsBer 127TH, 1855. 
THOMAS ROMNEY ROBINSON, D.D., Presipent, 
in the Chair. 
Epwarp Wricut, LL.D., was elected a Member of the 
Academy. 
Dr. Petrie having, at the request of the President, re- 
ported the donation, by Mrs. Thomas Moore, of the Library ot 
the late Mr. Moore :— 
On the recommendation of the Council, it was Resolved, by 
acclamation :— 
That the marked thanks of the Academy are due and are 
hereby given to Mrs. Moore, for her liberal and important 
donation to the Academy. 
The President announced to the Academy that the annual 
Parliamentary grant had been increased from £300 to £500 
per annum. 
The Secretary to the Council read the following papers :— 
On the Early Discovery and extensive Adoption of the 
Bissextile Intercalation; with a view to determine the nature 
of the ancient Year. By the Rev. F. Nolan, LL.D., F.R.S. 
After some general remarks on the natural division of the 
year by the vicissitude of the seasons, the difficulty which the 
author aims at removing is stated. The hypothesis of those 
learned persons who have laboured to prove that the ancient 
year consisted but of 360 days is first described, and some ob- 
jections to which it is exposed are specified. The antiquity 
and general reception of the quadrennial intercalation is then 
asserted, and declared to contain a refutation of the false as- 
sumption that a year of such limited dimensions could have 
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