PROCEEDINGS 



THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. 



1844-45. No. 49. 



January 13, 1845. 



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

 Chair. 



Robert Scott Bradshaw, Esq., Thomas Davis, Esq., Sir 

 Richard Franklin, M. D., Edmund G-jtty, Esq., George A. 

 Hamilton, Esq., M. P., Henry G. Hughes, Esq., Capt. Henry 

 James, R. E., Francis L' Estrange, Esq., Edward Lucas, Esq., 

 John Phillips, Esq., Thomas N. Redington, Esq., M. P., Mar- 

 mion W. Savage, Esq., and Richard Sharp, Esq., were elected 

 Members of the Academy. 



It was moved by Sir Wm. Betham, and seconded by P. D. 

 Hardy, Esq., " That a Committee, not members of the Coun- 

 cil, be appointed to examine the Returns laid on the 'i'able of 

 the Academy on the 30th of November last, to inquire into 

 the facts therein stated, and to report thereon ; and that the 

 Committee consist of Sir William Betham, Lieut.-Col. Harry 

 D. Jones, R. E., Thomas Hutton, Esq., William Hogan, 

 Esq., and Aquilla Smith, Esq., M. D." 



Which motion, having been put, was negatived without 

 a division. 



Mr. Robert Ball read a notice on the original use of cer- 

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