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Monday, January 26th, 1852. 



THOMAS KOMNEY ROBINSON, D.D., President, 

 in the Chair. 



On the recommendation of the Council, it was resolved : 

 That in place of chapter via., section 6, of the By-Laws, 



the following be substituted : 



" Papers read, and other business previously arranged by 



the Council transacted." 



The Secretary read a letter from Messrs. Waterhouse and 

 Co., presenting to the Academy two drawings by Mr. Wat- 

 son, on a large scale, of the ancient brooch in their possession. 



Sir William Betham presented a fragment of an alabaster 

 hand found near Monkstown. 



Lord Talbot de Malahide presented a very ancient bronze 

 bell, said to have been found near Tuam. 



Mr. Mallet read a Paper on the Results of the Discussion 

 of the Great Earthquake Catalogue, prepared by the command 

 of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 



He exhibited diagrams to the Academy discussing by 

 curves the distribution in time and space of all recorded earth- 

 quakes, which have been collected in the great Catalogue of 

 Earthquakes, prepared by command of the British Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, embracing the whole histori- 

 cal period down to the end of the year 1850, and comprising 

 about six thousand single earthquakes. 



He stated the methods and precautions adopted in form- 

 ing this large Catalogue, whose distribution is tabular. And 

 from this, the largest basis of induction yet produced on the 

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