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£35 to a Committee consisting of Eev. Dr. S Hanghton, Dr. 



D. J. Cunningham, Dr. A. C. HacMon, and Dr. Charles E,. Browne, 

 to assist them in carrying on the work of the Anthropometrical 

 Laboratory, Trinity College, Dublin, and the Ethnographical Survey 

 of Ireland. 



£12 to Mr. Henry Dixon to assist him in carrying on his investi- 

 gations of the Physics of the Transpiration Current, and the Problem 

 of the Ascent of Sap in High Trees. 



£6 to a Committee consisting of Dr. E. P. Wright, Messrs. E, "W". 

 Moore, and D. M'Ardle, to assist them in the investigation of the Irish 

 Hepaticae. 



£35 to a Committee consisting of Dr. E. F. Scharff, Messrs. Gr. H. 

 Carpenter, A. E. Nichols, G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton, E. J. Ussher, 



E. Lloyd Praeger, and H. Lyster Jameson, to assist them in continuing 

 their researches into the Eauna of Ireland. 



[This Grant was subsequently returned by the Grantees.] 

 £12 to Mr. Thomas Plunkett to assist him in exploring a large 

 Caii-n a short distance from Enniskillen. 



£35 to Prof. A. C. Haddon, d.sc, to assist him in his investigation 

 of the Decorative Art of Borneo. 



The Secretary of Council reports that he has again secured 

 Mr. Purton's assistance in the preparation of slips for the Irish 

 Dictionary. 



The Council regret that tliey have not been able to appoint during 

 the past year a Todd Professor of the Celtic Languages ; but they hope 

 that before long the vacant post will be filled up. 



With respect to the Annals of Ulster, the Editor, Eev. Dr. 

 MacCarthy reports that the Index is nearly printed off, and that he 

 anticipates the publication of this the final volume of the Annals, con- 

 taining Introduction and Index, in the autumn of the present year. 



The attention of the Council having been drawn to the publication 

 of a paper in Archaologia, describing a valuable find of gold ornaments 

 and other objects in the north of Ireland, they deemed it right to 

 bring the question of the finding and the sale in London of these 

 objects, which seemed to come under the category of treasure trove, 



