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The Secretary of the Council read the following : — 



EePORT of the CoTOfCIL FOK THE Yeak 1897-8. 



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

 Academy have been issued : — 



Transactions, vol. xxxi. 



Part 3. " Notes on Eockall Island and Bank, with an Account 

 of the Petrology of Eockall, and of its "Winds, Currents, &c. : with 

 Eeports on the Ornithology, the Invertebrate Pauna of the Bank, 

 and on its previous History." By th"e Eev. W. S. Grreen, m.a., 

 and others. 



Part 4. "Further Development of the Eelations between Impul- 

 sive Screws and Instantaneous Screws, being the Eleventh Memoir 

 on the ' Theory of Screws.' " By Sir Eobert S. Ball, ll.d., f.k.s. 



Part 5, "The Twelfth and Concluding Memoir on the 'Theory 

 of Screws,' with a Summary of the Twelve Memoirs." By Sir Eobert 



Ball, LL.D., F.K.S. 



Proceedings. 



Of the Proceedings, Third Series, Part 2 of Vol. iv., was published 

 in April, 1897, and contained the following Papers: — 



'' A Study of the Languages of Torres Straits, with Vocabularies and 

 Grammatical JS'otes." (Part 2). By Sidney H. Eay, and A. C. 

 Haddon, m.a., d.sc. {continued from last Part). 



"■ Vector Expressions for Curves." By Charles J. Joly, m.a., f.t.o.d. 

 Part I. — "Unicursal Curves." 



" On the Melting Points of Minerals." By Ealph S. Cusack. 



" Concerning Marsh's Library and an Original Indulgence from 

 Cardinal Wolsey lately discovered therein." By Eev. George 

 T. Stokes, D.D. 



And Part 3 of Vol. iv. in July, 1897, containing the following 

 Paper : — 



"On the Origin of the European Fauna." By E. F. Scharff, ph.d,, 



B.SC, F.Z.S. 



