256 Royal Irish Academy. 



Donations to tlie Museum and Library were announced, and 

 thanks were voted to the Donors. 



Read letter from the Secretaries of the International Congress of 

 Orientalists, inviting the Academy to be represented by a Delegate. 



It was resolved : — 



' ' That the invitation of the International Congress of Orientalists 

 to attend the meeting to be held in Paris between the 5th and 12th of 

 September, be accepted, and that Professor R. Atkinson, ll.d,, be 

 appointed as the Academy's Delegate, and that this appointment be 

 made under the Seal of the Academy." 



MoKDAT, November 8, 1897. 



Dr. J. K. Ingram, s.f.t.c.d., a Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Thomas Frederick Cooke-Trench, d.l., signed the EoU, and 

 was admitted a Member of the Academy. 



The Secretary read a letter from the President (The Earl of 

 Rosse, K.p.), stating that he, accompanied by Lord Powerscourt and 

 Mr. John Ribton Garstin, had presented to H.R.H. the Prince of 

 Wales, on behalf of the Queen, the Academy's Address to Her Majesty 

 on the completion of the sixtieth year of Her reign, and that His 

 Royal Highness had handed him the following reply : — 



"On behalf of the Queen, my dear mother, I thank you for your 

 loyal and dutiful Address, and for the affectionate congratulations 

 which you tender on the completion of the 60th year of Her reign. 



"It is a source of profound joy to the Queen to receive the 

 expressions of devotion to Her Person and Pamily, which are offered 

 by Her subjects throughout the Empire ; she is gladdened by the 

 thought that the sixty years of Her reign have been years of progress 

 in knowledge and of increase in prosperity ; and she prays that, by 

 the blessing of Almighty GOD, she may always live in the hearts of 

 Her loving and beloved people." 



