188 Royal Irinh Academy. 



Monday, June 10, 1895. 

 De. J. K. Ingram, s.f.t.c.d,, President, in the Chair. 



Patrick J. Barry, i.e.c.s.i. ; Samuel "W. Percy Cowan, m.a. 

 (Dubl.) ; Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Ainslie Lunham, m.a. (Dubl.) ; and 

 Eev. James Edward Harnett Murphy, m.a. (Dubl.), were elected 

 Members of the Academy. 



Professor Sollas, f.e.s., read a Paper on "A Tertiary Volcanic 

 Neck near Bunown, CHfden, Co. Gal way." 



Eev. E. Hogan, s.j., read his Fourth Todd Memorial Lecture on 

 certain Passages from the Leabhar Breac. 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks were voted 

 to the Donors. 



Monday, Jtjiste 24, 1895. 

 De. J. K. Ingram, s.f.t.c.d.. President, in the Chair. 



The President announced the death, since the last meeting of the 

 Academy, of Dr. Valentine Ball, c.b., f.e.s., a Vice-President of the 

 Academy. 



The following resolution was proposed by Sir John Banks, k.c.b., 

 seconded by Master Pigot, m.a., and unanimously adopted : — 



" That the Royal Irish Academy has received with deep regret 

 the announcement by the President of the death of Dr. Valentine 

 Ball, C.B., a Vice-President of the Academy, and desires to record its 

 sense of the loss sustained by Science as well as by the Academy in 

 his untimely death. 



" The Academy hereby tenders to Mrs. V. Ball and her children 

 its sincere sympathy and condolence with them in their bereavement." 



The Secretary read for Mr. Ernest A. Smith, r.c.s., a Paper on 

 " The Metallic Composition of some Ancient Irish Gold and Silver 

 Ornaments." [Communicated by Professor J. P. O'Reilly, c.e.] 



Mr. G. Coffey, b.a.i., exhibited Photographs and Rubbing of an 

 Early Christian Gravestone recently found at Duleek, county Meath. 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks were voted 

 to the Donors. 



