180 Royal Irish Academy. 



The Thii'd Yolume of the " Annals of Ulster," edited by the Eev. 

 Dr. MacCarthy, is now in the press, and the editor expects that it 

 will be published before the end of the present month. 



The Eev. Edmund Hogan, s.j., the Academy's Todd Professor of 

 the Celtic Languages, whose tenure of the office expired in 1894, has 

 been re-elected for a further period of three years; and it is hoped that 

 the first series of his second Course of Lectures will be delivered 

 before the close of the present Session. 



The Council regret that the publication of the photolithograph of 

 the "Yellow Book of Lecan" has been unavoidably delayed, owing to 

 circumstances which have necessitated the transfer of the remaining 

 portion of the work to another firm of lithographers, but this portion 

 is now being reproduced with all possible expedition, and the Council 

 therefore hope that the work will be completed shortly. 



Steady progress has been made in the preparation of slips for the 

 Irish Dictionary by Mr. W. J. Purton, b.a., who during the past 

 year was appointed Assistant to the Editor of the Dictionary, and 

 who entered on his duties at the beginning of September, 1894. 



During the past year the Library has received many valuable 

 additions to the seHes of English and Foreign literary and scientific 

 publications. Some progress has been made in the preparation of a 

 draft catalogue of the printed books in the Library relating to 

 Ireland and Irish subjects, which it is believed will be found of much 

 practical value to persons who consult the Academy's Collections. 



On the 23rd of January the Committee appointed for that purpose 

 held their Annual Yisitation of the Academy's Collection of Antiquities 

 in the Museum of Science and Art, and their Report was duly pre- 

 sented to the Council and adopted. 



A sum of £435 7s 4<f., Government 2f per Cent. Consols, was during 

 the year transferred to the Eoyal Irish Academy by the Trustees of 

 the Eoyal Geological Society of Ireland, on trust to expend the interest 

 of same in illustrating Papers on Geology and Mineralogy thought 

 worthy of Publication by the Council of the Royal Irish Academy. 



The additions to the Academy's Museum during the year consist 

 chiefly of various bronze and stone implements found in different 

 places in Ireland, an interesting bone and bronze bird-shaped object 

 found at Innisfallen, and presented by the Board of "Works, and a 



