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now, for over a Centiuy, devoted ourselves to this task, and we are 

 gratified to know that the published Eecords of our Labours are in 

 Tour Majesty's Library at Windsor. 



"We tender to Tour Majesty the assurance of our Loyal Devotion, 

 and we pray that Tou may be long spared to occupy the Throne 

 of these Eealms. 



Signed on behalf of the Royal Irish Academy, 



E.OSSE, President. 



E. Pehceval Weight, M.D., Secretary. 



Academy Hottse, 



Dawson Stueet, Dtjblin, 

 June nth, 1897. 



On the motion of Master Pigot, seconded by Dr. Frazer, it was 

 resolved : — " That the Address to Her Majesty the Queen, just read, 

 be adopted, and that the President and Secretary of the Academy 

 (accompanied by the Mace) do present the same, on behalf of the 

 Academy, at whatever time and place shall be appointed." 



Monday, June 28, 1897. 



SiE John Gilbert, ll.d., a Yice-President, in the Chair. 



The Very Eev. Hugh O'Eeilly signed the Eoll, and was admitted 

 a Member of the Academy. 



John Joly, sc.d., e.e.s., was elected a Member of the Academy. 



Mr. C. J. Joly, m.a., f.t.c.d., read a Paper "On the Associative 

 Algebra applicable to Hyper-Space." 



Dr. C. E. Browne read a " Eeport on the Ethnography of Clare 

 Island and Innishturk, Co. Mayo." 



Mr. G. Coffey, a. i.e., read a "Note on a recently discovered 

 * Ship -marking ' at Dowth." 



