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IN POLITE LITERATURE. 
Dr. Hincks on the Personal Pronouns of the Assyrian and other Lan- 
guages. 
Dr. Wills on Dreams. 
Dr. Hincks on a Tablet in the British Museum in Cuneatic Charac- 
ters. 
IN ANTIQUITIES. 
The President on an ancient Irish Missal, now in the collection of 
‘Lord Ashburnham, 
The Twenty-fourth Volume has been commenced by the printing of Dr. 
Lloyd’s Paper ‘‘ On the Light reflected and transmitted by thin Plates.’’ 
The Academy, on the recommendation of the Council, has lately 
re-established the Committee of Publication. To this body all questions 
relating to the printing of the Transactions and Proceedings of the Aca- 
demy will be in the first instance referred; and it is hoped that under 
their superintendence the Papers read before us will in future be issued 
to the Members with greater promptitude and regularity. 
Arrangements have also been made for the wider circulation of our 
Transactions among the learned Societies of Great Britain, and of foreign 
countries. The Scientific, Literary, and Antiquarian portions will for 
the future be published separately, and transmitted respectively to the 
learned bodies which occupy themselves with those several departments 
of research. 
The Academy has received during the past year many interesting 
and valuable communications, of which abstracts or notices have ap- 
peared in the Proceedings. 
In Mathematics we have had Papers from Sir William R. Hamilton, 
Professor Graves, and Mr. Carmichael. 
In the Sciences of Observation and Experiment, from Dr. Lloyd, Mr. 
Jukes, Mr. Graham, Mr. Haughton, Mr. B. B. Stoney, Dr. Hancock, and 
Dr. Robert M‘Donnell. 
In Polite Literature, from Dr. Graves, Dr. Hincks, and Mr. Wilde. 
In Antiquities, from Dr. Reeves, Mr. Wilde, Mr. Clibborn, Dr. Kina- 
han, the Archdeacon of Ardfert, the President, Mr. Du Noyer, and Dr. 
Graves. 
The progress of the Catalogue of the Museum was delayed for want 
of funds during the greater part of the past year. A letter having been 
addressed by the President to the Lord Lieutenant on the subject, his 
Excellency kindly interested himself in procuring the assistance of the 
Government towards the completion of the work, and the Lords Com- 
missioners of her Majesty’s Treasury were induced to grant the sum of 
£200 towards that object. Members of the Academy have subscribed up- 
wards of £160 for thesame purpose ; and the sum of £8 10s. has been re- 
ceived from sales of Part I. since the 31st of March last. The manuscript 
of a further portion of the Catalogue, containing the descriptions of ar- 
ticles composed of animal materials, has been laid before the Council, 
and will, it is hoped, be published before the end of the Session. 
