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The thanks of the Academy were given to Mr. Gilmour 
for his kindness in lending the brooch for exhibition to the 
Academy. 
Dr. Corrigan made a short communication on the action 
of the wind in different directions producing waves on the 
surface of water in a glass vivarium, with the view of exhibit- 
ing a class of phenomena on a very small scale, which in 
nature he thought might in some degree explain the effects of 
the wind on lakes bounded more or less by mountains. 
Dr. Neligan and Mr. Hennessy made some remarks. 
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