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SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1861, STATED MEETING. 
James HentHorn Tovp, D.D., President, in the Chair. 
The Szcrerary of the Council read the following Report of the 
Council for the year ending March 16, 1861 :— 
REPORT. 
Since the date of the last Annual Report, the first part of Volume 
xxiv. of our Transactions has been issued and delivered to the Members 
of the Academy. It contains the following papers :— 
1. Dr. Lloyd, ‘‘On the Light reflected and transmitted by thin 
Plates.” 
2. Mr. Donovan, ‘‘ On a new Sun-dial.”’ 
: 3. Mr. G. J. Stoney, ‘‘ On Rings seen in fibrous specimens of Cale 
par.” 
4, Mr. G. J. Stoney, ‘On the Propagation of Waves.”’ 
No papers on Polite Literature or Antiquities have been printed in 
the Transactions within the year. 
Many interesting communications have been brought before the Aca- 
demy, of which abstracts have appeared in the Proceedings. 
In Mathematics we have had papers from Sir Wiliam R. Hamilton, 
Mr. Carmichael, Mr. Stoney, and Professor Hennessy. In the Sciences 
of Observation and Experiment from Professor Jellett, Mr. Stoney, Mr. 
Mallett, Captain Blakeley, Dr. Hart, Professor Galbraith, Professor 
Haughton, Dr. Robert M‘Donnell, and Mr. David Moore. 
In Polite Literature and Antiquities, from the President, Dr. Reeves, 
Mr. Charles M‘Donnell, Dr. Wilde, Mr. Du Noyer, and Mr. Huband 
Smith. 
We have again to express our obligations to Mr. Wilde for his valu- 
able services in the preparation of the Catalogue of our Museum. The 
second part of the work has been published within the year. It con- 
tains descriptions of all the articles in the Museum which are composed 
of Animal Materials, and of Copper or Bronze. It forms an octavo 
volume of 396 pages, and is illustrated with 377 engravings. A third 
part has yet to be added, to complete the Catalogue of that portion of the 
Museum which Mr. Wilde originally undertook to describe. In it will 
be comprised the articles of gold, silver, and iron; and those included 
under the head of “finds.” Mr. Wilde reports that it will consist of 
about eight sheets, or 180 pages. Ninety-three engravings for this 
third part have already been made and paid for. ; 
The sale of the Catalogue appears to have been considerable. Since 
the Ist of April, 1860, 36 copies of Part I., and 102 copies of Part IT. 
have been sold from the Academy’s office, to which numbers must, of 
eee be added those which have been disposed of through the pub- 
ishers. 
The Treasury having at length acceded to the application made by 
us, six proper cases have been supplied for the display, as well as safe- 
keeping, of the gold ornaments in our Museum. 
