172 Hoi/al Irish Academy. 



same in illustrating Papers on Geology and Mineralogy thought worthy 

 of publication by the Council of the Eoyal Irish Academy : 



"The Council recommend that the President and Treasurer be 

 empowered to affix the Seal of the Academy to an authorization to 

 the Chief Transfer Officer of the Bank of Ireland to lodge the interest 

 on the above Stock (now standing in the Books of the Bank of Ireland 

 in the name of 'The Eoyal Irish Academy, Account C) from time 

 to time to the current Account of the Royal Irish Academy. 



" The Income arising out of this Fund, and its Expenditure, will 

 be kept as a separate Account in the Books of the Academy." 



Mo^^DAT, r-EBRITAET 11, 1895. 



Eev. De. Haijghton, f.e.s., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read for Mr. "W. J. Knowles his " Third Eeport on 

 Prehistoric Eemains from the Sandhills of the Coast of Ireland." 



The Astronomer Eoyal (Dr. A. A. Eambaut) read a Paper " On 

 the Position of Encke's Comet," from Photographs taken by "W. E. 

 Wilson, M.E.I. A. 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks were voted 

 to the Donors. 



A special vote of thanks was passed to the Trustees of the British. 

 Museum for their Donation of Antiquities from the excavations at 

 Amathus, Cyprus, which antiquities form an important addition to 

 the Comparative Section of the Academy's Museum. 



Part 15 of Yol. xxx. of the Teansactjons of the Academy "On 

 the Tides of the Arctic Seas," Part ix., by Eev. Dr. Haughton, f.e.s., 

 was laid on the table. 



