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we liave to acknowledge a collection of transcripts from Irish MSS., 

 presented by the Ven. Archdeacon Kyle. 



The work of transcribing and lithographing Ancient Irish Texts 

 continues to be carried on under the supervision of our Librarian, Mr. 

 Gilbert. The second and concluding Part of the Academy's edition of 

 '"' Leabhar Breac " will be published as soon as the Introduction and 

 Table of Contents have been completed. A facsimile transcript of the 

 "Book of Leinster" has been executed, as far as page 100, by Mr. 

 O'Longan, assisted in the collation by Professor O'Looney ; and seventy- 

 six pages have been finally piinted off. The original, from which this 

 copy has been taken, is the propei-ty of Tiinity College, DubHn, and it is 

 right to add that that body has not only offered the utmost facilities 

 for the use of the Manuscript, but has contributed liberally to the 

 expense incurred in the publication. 



Two piizes of £50 each having been offered early in the year 

 1873, from the interest of the Cunningham bequest, open to general 

 competition, for Reports on the Irish Language and Irish Literature, 

 written and unwritten, in the Provinces of Munster and Connai.ght 

 respectively, seven Reports were sent in. The Council did not con- 

 sider that any of them was, on the whole, such a work as ought to 

 receive the prize offered. Such knowledge and industry, however, 

 were displayed in thi'ee of these Reports as seemed to entitle the authors 

 to some substantial mark of consideration, and the Council, accordingly, 

 bestowed on them Honorary Donations, as follows : — 



To the Yery Eev. Canon Ulick J. Bouj-ke, President of St. Jarlath's 

 CoUege, Tuam, £25. 



To Mr. John Fleming, Eathgormnck, Carrick-on-Suir, £15, 

 together with copies of the Academy's Editions of Leabhar IS'a-hTJidhri 

 and Leabhar Breac, and of the Irish MSS. Series, Part 1. 



To Mr. Prancis Keane, Prederick-street, jSTorth, Dublin, £10. 



These Reports are deposited in the Library of the Academy. 



The Council have since determined to offer two prizes of £50 each 

 from the Cunningham Pund for similar Reports in relation to the 

 Provinces of Ulster and Leinster respectively ; such Reports to be sent 

 in on or before the 1st of March, 1876. A statement on the subject 

 of the proposed Prizes foiTas Appendix A. to the present Report. 



The Rev. Canon Hume, Liverpool, having submitted to the Council 



