PROCEEDINGS 



THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. 



1846-7. No. 69. 



June 28th, 1847. 



REV. HUMPHREY LLOYD, D. D., President, in the 

 Chair. 



His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin was elected a Mem- 

 ber of Council, on the Committee of Polite Literature. 



It was Resolved, — That the sum of £50 be placed at 

 the disposal of the Council, for the purchase of antiquities. 



The Secretary read the draft of an Address to His Excel- 

 lency the Lord Lieutenant, which had been ordered at the 

 last Meeting. 



Resolved, — That the Address now read be adopted by 

 the Academy. 



John Anster, LL.D., read a paper by the Rev. James 

 Wills, in continuation of his former papers on " the Associa- 

 tion of Ideas." 



The author commenced by stating, that, according to the 

 view to which he had been led, the subject might be divi- 

 ded under three heads of inquiry : — the class of associations 

 formed by habits of action and perception, as described in his 

 first Essay ; those from accidental association, explained in 

 the second ; and those next to be considered, originating in the 

 mind itself. From the first he had endeavoured to trace the 



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