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ing covers of wood, and which are said to answer the purpose 

 perfectly, both of preventing loss by evaporation and keeping 

 the water sweet." 



March 16th, 1850. (Stated Meeting.) 



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

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary of the Academy read the following Re- 

 port from the Council : 



During the past year the first part of the twenty- second volume 

 of the Transactions of the Academy has been published. The 

 second part of the volume is nearly completed, and a copy of it, in 

 sheets, is now laid on the table of the Academy. The Proceedings 

 have also appeared as usual, although we regret to say, that, owing 

 to some temporary difficulties, the Proceedings of three or four of 

 our late Meetings are still in arrear. 



The Museum of the Academy was honoured in the month of 

 August last by a private visit from His Eoyal Highness the Prince 

 Albert, accompanied by His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, and 

 several other distinguished noblemen. His Eoyal Highness was 

 pleased to take a very great interest in the antiquities exhibited to 

 him; and on leaving the Museum expressed much gratification 

 with the collection. 



The Committee of Science have been engaged for the last few 

 months in the consideration of a measure of considerable importance, 

 of which the substance has already been laid before you. They 

 have proposed to the Council to organize, under the auspices of the 

 Academy, a system of meteorological observations in Ireland, similar 

 to that which has been recently carried out in various parts of Ger- 

 many. They have shewn that Ireland, from its geographical position, 

 and other causes, affords a peculiarly favourable field for such ob- 

 servations ; and there is every reason to hope that if the proposed 



