148 Royal Irish Academy. 



The Secretary read the following letter : — 



"Boi^if, \mh April, 1893. 

 ' ' Deae Peopessoe Weight, 



" It is only to-day I came home after a journey of five weeks ; 

 it is thus I can only to-day express my sincerest thanks for the high 

 honour the Royal Irish Academy confers upon me by electing me 

 Honorary Member. I esteem highly this great distinction, and beg 

 you to express my profound gratitude to the Eoyal Academy. 



' ' With the utmost esteem 



" Faithfully yours, 



" E. Steasbtjegee." 



The Treasurer read, for the Eight Eev. Dr. Grraves, Bishop of 

 Limerick, a Paper " On a Passage in Tirechan's Collections in the Book 

 Armagh." 



Mr. Eobert Eussell, ma., e.t.c.d., read a Paper " On the Geometry 

 of the Cubic." 



Mr. Eobert Eussell, m.a., e.t.c.d., read also a Paper " On Euler 

 Constructions in connexion with Cubic Curves." 



Eev. Edmund Hogan, s.j., read his second Todd Memorial Lecture. 

 Subject, " The Linguistic Value of the Latin Lives of the Irish 

 Saints." 



Dr. William Erazer read a Paper "On an Anglo-Saxon 'Bird- 

 Brooch' of Bronze, found in Dublin Excavations." 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks were voted 

 to the Donors. 



Monday, Mat 8, 1893. 

 Dh. J. K. Ingeasi, S.F.T.C.D., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Henry Chichester Hart, b.a., f.l.s., was elected a Member of 

 the Academy. 



Prof. W. J. Sollas, ll.d., e.e.s., read a Paper " On the Eelation 

 of the Granite to the Gabbro of the Mourne Mountain District as 

 displayed at Barnavave, Carlingford." 



