194 Royal Irish Academy. 



By permission of the Academy, Mr. E. E. Eournier d'Albe, b.sc, 

 read a Paper on " The Identity of Energy." [Communicated by 

 Prof. J. P. O'Reilly, c.e.] 



By permission of the Academy, ^r. H. Dixon, b.a., read a Paper 

 on " Role of Osmosis in Transpiration in Plants." [Communicated 

 by Prof. E. P. Wright, m.d.] 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks were voted 

 to the Donors. 



Monday, Jajtctabt 27, 1896. 

 Dr. J. K. Ingram;, s.f.t.c.I)., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. R. Lloyd Praeger, b.e., read a "Report on the Raised 

 Beaches of the IS'orth-East of Ireland." 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks were voted 

 to the Donors. 



Monday, Eebrtjary 10, 1896. 

 Dr. J. K. iNGRAiT, S.F.T.C.D., President, in the Chair. 



Eev. William Spots wood Green, ii.A., signed the Roll, and was 

 admitted a Member of the Academy. 



Mr. Caesar Litton Ealkiner, m.a., and Lieut. -Colonel George T. 

 Plunkett, Royal Engineers, retired, were elected Members of the 

 Academy. 



Rev. T. Olden, m.a., read a Paper on "The Paten of Gourdon, 

 illustrated from the Book of Armagh." 



Dr. W. Erazer read a Paper on " Chambered Tumuli, and their 

 Construction," and also exhibited some remains of a wooden house 

 recently discovered by Mr. Thomas Drew, h.h.a., at St. Michael's 

 Hill, Dublin, on the site of the old hazel forest and bog. 



The President received from the Subscribers, on behalf of the 

 Academy, an Oil Portrait (by Miss Purser) of the late Sir Robert 

 Kane, li,.d., p.r.s., President of the Academy (1877-82). 



