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talogue, was drawing up for the Committee of Antiquities a list of the 
articles purchased during the last year, in accordance with the recom- 
mendation of Council. 
‘‘The whole debt incurred for work done in the Museum from the 
date of my Report in July last to the present day is £6 5s., and for 
making a fair transcript of a portion of the Catalogue, the sum of £2, 
being, with the cost of engraving, £22 13s. in all, spent in seven months, 
to meet which 194 Catalogues have been disposed of, thus leaving a 
balance on the credit side of the account. So that, at the close of an 
arduous work, extending over more than eighteen months, and dis- 
pensing upwards of £100, I am happy to be able to show that I have 
not exceeded the trust reposed in me by the Academy, and that there 
is, therefore, no necessity for the Treasurer, however anxious he may 
be to show a clear account at the end of the year, to apply to the Aca- 
demy for any money to make up the surplus expenditure under this 
head. 
‘You will be good enough to inform the Council that I have acted 
promptly on the order contained in its Resolution, and ‘stopped all work 
connected with the Catalogue,’ viz., the labelling of the silver ornaments, 
the registration and numbering of the Ecclesiastical Antiquities (partly 
done), and the transcription of the manuscript of the Catalogue of bronze 
articles for printing. 
«When preparing the first Part of the Catalogue, to meet the exi- 
gency of the Meeting of the British Association, I was under the im- 
pression that the book would be—and I much regret that it was not— 
given to the Members by whose money it was compiled. This is, I 
believe, the first time the Academy has had any profitable return from its 
publications. 
“‘ Not having the charge of the accounts, it only remained for me to 
keep the expenditure within the limits of the sales, at an average return 
of 4s. per copy. The total number of books sold has been 614, which 
should have produced £122 16s. (and of which number 568 have been 
paid for), upon the strength of which I expended £104 12s. 1d., but 
as I have been informed by Mr. Clibborn that the net return from the 
copies paid for has been only £110 4s., I presume that the difference 
has been expended in postage. As the 46 copies now due for by Members, 
and which may be considered as good debts, and on which there is no 
postage, will produce £9 2s., a considerable balance will remain in fa- 
vour of the Academy at the end of the account. 
‘< Allow me to remind the Academy of this fact :—Since Dr. Petrie 
produced his great work on the ‘ Ecclesiastical Architecture and Round 
Towers of Ireland,’ read to the Academy in 1833, and published as our 
twentieth volume, in March, 1845, we have printed 2127 pages of Trans- 
actions, of which"1348 were devoted to Science, 765 to Polite Litera- 
ture, and only 19 (furnished by Dr. Todd and myself) to the subject of 
Antiquities. Had original papers upon Antiquities been supplied, no 
doubt they would have been published and illustrated, but as that has 
not been the case, I have only to observe that, during the last fourteen 
