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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1859. 
James HentHorn Topp, D. D., President, in the Chair. 
Tue Secretary of the Council read the following Report from the 
Council :— 
REPORT. 
Tue history of the Academy for the past year does not present much 
which calls for remark on the part of the Council. 
In presenting their Report for the Session 1857-58, the Council 
stated to the Academy that during the previous year the printing of 
their ‘‘ Transactions” had been almost entirely suspended, in consequence 
of deficiency in our funds. 
The Resolution then adopted by the Academy, as also the completion 
of the first part of the Catalogue, having removed this difficulty, the print- 
ing of our ‘‘ Transactions” has been resumed; and the following papers 
have been completed, and are now nearly ready for publication:— 
Rey. Dr. Robinson on ‘‘ The Lifting Power of the Electro-Magnet.”’ 
Rey. Dr. Lloyd on ‘‘The Determination of the Earth’s Magnetic 
Force.” 
Dr. Kinahan ‘‘ On the Genus Oldhamia.” 
Professors Jukes and Haughton on ‘‘ The Lower Palozoic Rocks 
of the South-East of Ireland.” 
Lieutenant Renny on ‘‘ The Constants of the Barometric Formule.” 
These papers together make about twenty sheets. 
The Academy will observe that the papers above enumerated belong 
exclusively to the department of Science. Itis a matter for regret that 
no addition has, during the past year, been made to our ‘“‘ Transactions” 
in either of the departments of Polite Literature or Antiquities. The 
Council trust, however, that this is to be ascribed to accidental causes, 
and not to any permanent relaxation in the activity of our Members. 
The twenty-third volume of our ‘‘ Transactions’ is now almost ready 
for publication. It will contain, besides the papers already enumerated, 
the following, which were printed before the Stated Meeting of 1858 :— 
In Science, Rev. George Salmon on ‘“‘ The Degree of a Surface re- 
ciprocal to a given one.” 
Lieutenant Renny on ‘‘ The Barometric Measurement of Heights.” 
Professor Downing on ‘‘ The Draining of Lake Haarlem.” 
Mr. Forster on the ‘‘ Molecular Constitution of Crystals.”’ 
In Polite Literature:—From the Rev. Dr. Hincks, “‘On the 
Assyrian Personal Pronoun.” Rev. James Wills, ‘‘On Dreams.” Rey. 
Dr. Hincks, ‘‘ On a Tablet in the British Museum.” 
In Antiquities :—From the President, ‘‘On an ancient Irish Missal.” 
Besides these papers, which have not yet been published, the twenty- 
third volume contains :—Professor Haughton’s ‘“‘ Memoir on the Diurnal 
Tides on the Irish Coasts.’”” Mr. Donovan, ‘‘ On the Deflections of the 
