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March 16th, 1849. 



REV. HUMPHREY LLOYD, D. D., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary of the Academy read the following Re- 

 port : 



During the past year, no event of unusual importance has oc- 

 curred in the history of the Academy. The interest taken by the 

 Members in the welfare of the Academy continues unabated, and is 

 evinced as well by their large attendance at the Meetings as by the 

 many valuable papers contributed to our Proceedings and to the 

 Transactions. 



Twenty- one new Members have been elected during the year 

 now closed ; and the Academy have also elected as Honorary Mem- 

 bers, in the section of Antiquities, the Chevalier Bunsen, M. Thom- 

 sen, of Copenhagen, and M. Botta, of Paris, 



The names of the ordinary Members elected during the year are 

 as follow : 



William Armstrong, Esq. Rev. James Bewglass, LL. D. 



Michael Barry, Esq. Rev. Edward Dillon. 



Rev. Joseph Fitzgerald. John Carley, Esq. 



Rev. William Graham. Jonathan Pim, Esq. 



James Christopher Kenny, Esq. John Purser, Esq. 



Capt. W. E. D. Broughton, R. E. John L. Rickards, Esq., C. E. 



Yen. Archdeacon T. P. Magee, Henry Smith, Esq., C. E. 



LL. D. Maurice Colles, Esq. 



Andrew Graham, Esq. Rev. John Magrath, LL. D. 



Viscount Dungannon. Jeremiah J. Murphy, Esq. 



John Bell, Esq. William Ogilby, Esq. 



The Academy has lost by death during the past year the follow- 

 ing Honorary Members : 



James Cowles Pritchard, Esq., M. D., elected 1836, 

 J. Jacob Berzelius, elected 1829. 

 Notices of these eminent individuals having already appeared in 

 several literary and scientific journals, it is not necessary for the 



