Minnies of Proceedings. 195 



Monday, February 24, 1896. 



Dr. J. E. Ingram, s.f.t.c.d., President, in the Chair. 



His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, Earl Cadogan, k.g.. Visitor 

 of the Academy, having arrived, 



The President delivered the following Address : — 



It "v^as formerly the practice of the Council of the Academy to 

 award, from time to time, medals on the Cunningham foundation to 

 the authors of papers in our " Transactions," and occasionally even of 

 independent publications, which were considered to possess eminent 

 merit. An arrangement was afterwards made by which the available 

 fund is usually devoted to the printing and the often costly illustration 

 of certain selected papers, of such excellence that, under the previous 

 system, medals would fitly have been awarded to them. These are 

 published as "Cunningham Memoirs." This change in our mode of 

 honouring some of our most valued contributors does not, I am advised, 

 discharge me of the duty which the President performed in bestowing 

 the medals — that, namely, of explaining in a general way the objects 

 of the several memoirs, the mode of treatment followed in them, 

 and the principal results arrived at. I am not at all disposed to 

 evade this obligation ; far otherwise : it is a pride and pleasure to 

 me to dwell thus on some of the best intellectual products of 

 the Academy. Accordingly I now proceed^ to speak of three of 

 what may be called our Memoires Couronnes, which have been 

 either read, or distributed to our members, during the period of 

 my Presidency. 



The first of these is the Memoir by Professor Cunningham, 

 entitled, " Contributions to the Surface Anatomy of the Cerebral 

 Hemispheres." 



Though the study of the brain — rather, however, from the 

 physiological (or functional) than the anatomical side — has always 

 had a special fascination for me, I am, of course, incompetent to 



^ Pail of the f oUowing Address had to he omitted in the delivery, in consequence 

 of the limitation of time. 



