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Ordnance Survey of the County of Mayo, in 125 sheets. 

 Presented by His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant. 



Barlow's Tables of Squares, fyc. published under the 

 Superintendance of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful 

 Knowledge. Presented by the Society. 



Supplement to the Introduction to the Atomic Theory. 

 By Charles Daubeny, M. D., F. R. S. Presented by the 

 Author. 



March 16. (Stated Meeting.) 



SIR Wm. R. HAMILTON, LL.D., President, in the Chair. 



A letter from the Secretary of State for the Home De- 

 partment was communicated by his Excellency the Lord 

 Lieutenant, informing his Excellency, that the Address of 

 the President, Council, and Members of the Royal Irish 

 Academy, had been laid before the Queen, and that Her 

 Majesty had received the same very graciously. 



The Secretary of Council read the following Report, 

 which was ordered to be entered on the Minutes : 



" In resigning their office into the hands of the Academy, the 

 Council have felt it to he their duty, in conformity with the prac- 

 tice of other kindred societies, to present a brief Report of their 

 Proceedings, and of the general history of the Academy during the 

 past year. 



" The Council regret to state that the financial condition of the 

 Academy has not been an improving one. They believe, however, 

 that this circumstance (though ' it must create the necessity for 

 circumspection) will not be regarded as discouraging, when it is 

 known to have arisen from a cause essentially connected with the 

 welfare and vitality of the Society. The character of an association 

 formed for the advancement of any branch of learning, must he 



