Minutes of Proceedings. 22^ 



Monday, Maech 16, 1896. 



(Stated Meeting.) 

 Dii. J. K. Ingham, s.e.t.c.d., President, in the Chair. 



Colonel G. T. Plunkett and Mr. C. Litton Falkiner signed the 

 Roll, and were admitted Members of the Academy. 



The President declared the ballot open for the election of Presi- 

 dent and Council for the coming year, and for the election of Hono- 

 rary Members. 



Dr. J. T. Gilbert proposed, and Professor G. E. Fitz Gerald 

 seconded, the Earl of Eosse, e:.p., for the office of President. 



Master Pigot and Mr. J. E. Gore were appointed Scrutineers of 

 the ballot for President and Council, and the Treasurer and Secretary 

 of the ballot for Honorary Members. 

 • The Secretary of Council read the following 



Eepoet of the Council foe the Year 1895-96. 

 Since the date of the last Eeport the following Publications of the 

 Academy have been issued : — 



Transactions, vol. xxx. 

 Part 16. " The Theory of Linear Yector Functions. " By Charles 



J. Joly, M.A., F.T.C.D. 



Part. 17. "On the Cytology of the Vegetative and Eeproductive 

 Organs of the Saprolegnieee." By Marcus Hartog, m.a., d.sc, 

 Professor of Natural History, Queen's College, Cork. 



The Todd Lecture Series. 

 Vol. VI. Eev. Edmund Hogan, s.j., F.E.tr.i. : " The Irish 

 Nennius from L. na Huidre and Homilies and Legends from L. 

 Brecc." Alphabetical Index of Irish Neuter Substantives. 



Proceedings. 

 Of the Proceedings, Third Series, Part 4 of Vol. m., was published 

 in December, 1895, and contained the following Papers : — 

 " On a Pandean Pipe from Tanna Island, New Hebrides." By Pro- 

 fessor J. P. O'Eeilly, and E. E. Eournier d'Albe. 

 "On the Crystalline Form of Eiebeckite." By W. J. Sollas, ll.d., 

 D.sc, F.E.S., Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in the Univer- 

 sity of Dublin. 



