( Ixxxiii ) 



A. S. Hart, LL.D., S.F.T.C.D., read a paper "On tlie Nine- 

 point Contact of Cubic-Cuxves." 



[This paper will appear as Part 17 of Yol. XXY. of the ''Trans- 

 actions]." 



A. Macalister, M.D., read a paper " On some Forms of the Liga- 

 mentum Pterygo-spinosum." 



[This paper will appear in the " Proceedings," Second Series, Yol. 

 II., Science, Part 3, with illustrations.] 



Mr. A. M. Baker read a paper " On the Ligamentnm Mncosiim." 



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

 II., Science, Part 3, with three wood-cuts.] 



The Secretary laid on the table the following Part of Yol. XXY. 

 of the " Transactions " : — 



Part 15. " On the Seychelles Fern Flora" (Pis. xxviii. to 

 xxxi.), by J. O. Baker, F.L.S. 



List of Ohjecis acquired since last Meeting of the Academy. 



DONATIONS. 



Two Disks of bitumen with limpit shells attached, from an oyster 

 bed lately discovered, two miles off Tara bay, coast of the Ards, 

 Co. Down. Presented by Arthur JSTugent, M.R.I. A. 



Bronze Tripod Yessel. Presented by S. "Waterhouse, Esq., Dame-st. 



Thanks were voted to the Donors. 



PUECHASES. 



Two Bronze Spring Brooches. 



Pair of Grold Ear-rings, weighing 1 dwt., said to have been found 



in a grave in Killeshandra churchyard, in 1874. 

 Silver Brooch-Pendant, weighing 6 dwts. 5 grs., found September 



1870, in the crannoge in Aghaloughan bog, near Eandalstown, 



Co. Antrim. 



The Academy then adjourned. 



