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Monday, January 12th, 1852. 



JOHN ANSTER, LL.D., V.P., in the Chair. 



Joseph Dickenson, M.D., Joseph Beete Jukes, Esq., Tho- 

 mas T. Kelly, Esq., and George Roe, Esq., were elected 

 Members of the Academy. 



Rev. Humphrey Lloyd, V. P., on the part of Maurice 

 O'Connell, Esq., presented a collection of Meteorological Ob- 

 servations made at Darrynane Abbey in the years 1845 and 

 1846. He also explained that the views he had put forward 

 respecting the influence of the Gulf Stream upon the climate 

 of Ireland, had been entertained by the late Daniel O'Connell, 

 Esq., who had noticed the more frequent arrival, during late 

 years, of West Indian seeds, &c, upon the south-western 

 coast of Ireland. 



The Secretary of Council presented the following dona- 

 tions to the Museum : 



A small frying-pan, found in the ford of the river Suck, 

 near Corneen Castle, Ballinasloe, together with a quantity of 

 the horns and other bones of deer. Presented by William T. 

 Potts, Esq. 



Four limpets, found with many others, in an ancient struc- 

 ture called the Giant's Grave, on the edge of Lough Aun, 

 County Mayo, 700 feet above the level of the sea. Presented 

 by Richard Glennan, Esq. 



The Secretary of Council read the following letter from 

 Dr. Griffin, of Limerick : 



Limerick, November 26, 1851. 

 My dear Sir, — Lord Dunraven requested me, some time 

 since, to send you in a brief form the principal facts connected 

 with the Limerick whirlwind of October 5th, 1851, that you 



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