248 Royal Iruh Academy. 



The Eev. Edmond Hogan, s.j., Todd Professor, has resigned the 

 Professorship, in consequence of other pressing duties rendering it 

 impossible for him to devote to it the requisite time. The election of 

 his successor will devolve upon the new Council at an early date. 



The reproduction, by photolithography, of the " Yellow Book of 

 Lecan," having been completed, the work was published during the 

 past year, it being the fifth of the Academy's facsimiles of the more 

 important Irish Manuscripts. 



During the past year a large number of Antiquities have been 

 acquired for the Museum. These include many bronze weapons and 

 implements, swords, dagger-blades, celts, etc., and two exceptionally 

 fine specimens of rapiers ; also some fibulae, rings, pins, and portions 

 of bridle-bits, etc. The Academy has also acquired a collection of 

 upwards of 700 flint objects, including flint knives, some very perfect 

 specimens of a rare form of tanged knife-blades, and a representative 

 collection of flint arrow-heads from the north of Ireland. This is the 

 most important acquisition in this department which the Academy 

 has made for some years. In addition to the foregoing, some fine 

 specimens of querns, and over 200 other stone objects, have been 

 obtained; also two excellent collections of beads, and 9 wooden 

 objects, known as " otter traps." 



Two additional rooms in the Museum Building will shortly be 

 made available for the display of the Academy's collections. The 

 western gallery of the large central court has been for some months 

 occupied by Ogam inscribed stones and other large stone objects, 

 which had been at first placed in the Crypt. 



The Council regret to say that they have not yet had any com- 

 munication from the Grovernment as to the filling of the post of 

 Curator of the Academy's Museum, which has remained vacant since 

 November last. 



Major Robert Mac Euiry was appointed Curator of the Academy's 

 Museum in April, 1872. The entire collection was transferred to the 

 New Science and Art Museum Building under an Agreement between 

 the President and Council of the Eoyal Irish Academy, and the Lords 

 of the Committee of Council on Education, of June, 1890, when 

 Major Mac Eniry became a member of the Civil Service. The 

 Council, at the time, understood that he would rank for pension 

 as an ordinary Civil Servant from the date of his first appointment. 



