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Monday, Januaut 25, 1875. 

 "William Stokes, M. D., Y. E. S., President, in the Chair. 



The Eev. Edward M'Clure read a paper ''On Irish Popular 

 Names." 



[This Paper will appear in the ''Proceedings," Second Series, 

 Vol. I., Polite Literature and Antiquities.] 



Samuel Ferguson, LL. D., V. P., read a paper " On a Ogham In- 

 scription at MuUagh, Co. Cavan," also " Notices of the Monataggart 

 Ogham Texts" from the Bishop of Limerick, Whitley Stokes, LL. D., 

 and Eev. E. D. Haigh. 



[This Paper wiU appear in the " Proceedings," Second Series, 

 Vol. I., Polite Literature and Antiquities.] 



Eev. Dr. Eeeves, V. P., read a Paper "On the MS. in Marsh's 

 Library called the Codex Kilkemiensis." 



[This Paper will appear in the " Proceedings," Second Series, 

 Vol, I., Polite Literature and Antiquities.] 



Mr, H. "W. Mackintosh read a paper " On the structure of the 

 Spines in the Diadematidse." 



The examination extended over the five genera contained in the 

 family, and eight out of the twelve species. About 150 sections 

 were examined, taken from twenty specimens. Eesults seemed to be 

 that there was a perfectly distinct type for each genus, and that the 

 species were more or less discriminable fi'om each other by minor va- 

 riations in structure. There was, as a rule, very little difference in 

 structure in sections taken from different pai'ts of the same spine. 

 Some remarkable alterations caused by fractures and subsequent re- 

 pairs of the spines had also occurred and were carefully described. 



[This Paper will appear as Part 15, Vol, XXV., of the " Transac- 

 tions" of the Academy, with three Plates.] 



Dr. A. Macalister read a Paper " On a few points in the Cranial 

 Osteology of Bradypus gula/risP 



[This Paper will appear, with an Illustration, in the ' ' Proceed- 

 ings," Second Series, Vol. II., Part 2, Science.] 



Dr. A. Macalister read a Paper " On the anatomy of Insectivorous 

 Edentates, Part 1." 



The author, in this part of his memoir, gave an account of the 

 myology of the group, represented by the genera Manis and Myrmeco- 



