244 Royal Irish Academy. 



The Secretary of Council read the following : — 



Eeport of the Council por the Tear 1896-97. 



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

 Academy have been issued : — 



Transactions, vol, xxx. 

 Part 18. " On a Yolcanic !N'eck, of Tertiary Age, in the county of 

 Grahvay." By Professor Sollas, d.sc, f.e.s., and A. M'Henry, m.k.i.a. 

 Part 19. "On Scalar Invariants of two Linear Vector Punctions." 

 By Charles J. Joly, m.a., f.t.c.d. 



Part. 20. " On Species of Flioxocephalus and Apherusa.'^ By 

 W. T. Caiman, b.sc. 



Transactiojts, vol. xxxi. 



Part 1. "On Deep-Sea Crustacea from the South-west of 

 Ireland." By "W. T. Caiman, b.sc. 



Part 2. " jSTotes on the Prehistoric Cemetery of Loughcrew, with 

 a Fasciculus of Photographic Illustrations of the Sepulchral Cairns." 

 By Greorge Coffey, b.e. 



ProceeMngs. 



Of the Froceedings, Third Series, Part 5 of Vol. ni., was published 

 in May, 1896^ and contained the following Papers : — 



"Prehistoric Settlements at Portnafeadog, in the Parish of Moyrus,. 

 Connemara." By Francis Joseph Bigger, m.e.i.a. 



"Notes on the Composition of Ancient Irish Gold and Silver Orna- 

 ments." By Ernest A. Smith, Assoc, r.s.m., e.c.s. 



" On a Double- Cist Grave and Eemains recently discovered at Old- 

 bridge, county Meath." By George Coffey, b.e. 



"On Two New Species of Phycopeltis from New Zealand." By 

 A. Vaughan Jennings, e.l.s., e.g.s. 



"Note on the Pole of Osmosis in Transpiration." By Henry H. 

 Dixon, B.A. 



" On Pive Gold Pibulse lately discovered in the South of Ireland, and 

 on the Art Processes used in their Manufacture." By Dr. "W. 

 Prazer, and Mr. Edmond Johnson, m.r.i.a. 



"The Paten of Gourdon, Illustrated from The Book of Armagh.'* 

 By the Eev. T. Olden. 



