{ cxiv ) 



" 15. The Botanic Gardens, Glasnerin, would be under a Curator 

 paid by the State as at present ; but lie ■u'ould be appointed by, and 

 responsible to, the Science and Art Department. 



" 16. The Dii-ector of the Science and Art ITuseum "would act as 

 Accounting Officer for all the votes of public money, and would be the 

 medium of communication -witlL the Science and Art Department. 



"17. Their Lordships tmst that this communication will reccive- 

 the early attention of your Society. 



" I have the honour to be, Sii', 



" Tour obedient servant, 



"SAIs^)o^^" 

 " The Pbesidext of the 



' ' EOXAX IeISH xiCADEMT, 



" Dawsox-steeet, Dxn3Lix." 



It was Ptesolved — 



That the Council be requested to report to the Academy on the^ 

 proposals of the Government contained in the letter of Lord Sandon 

 now read. 



It was Eesolved — 



That it be recommended to the Council to take the necessary steps 

 to invite the British Association for the Advancement of Science to 

 meet in Dublin dui'ing the autumn of 1878 ; and that the Council ba 

 authorized— should they see fit — to send a deputation to the Glasgow^ 

 meeting of the British Association to be held in September, 1876. 



The Academy then adjourned. 



Mos-DAY EvExrs'G, Febutjary 28, 1876. 

 VTiLLiAii Stokes, M.D., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



By permission of the Academy, llr. E. T. Hardman read a Paper 

 " On Analysis of Coal and Ironstones from Dungannon Coal Picld, Co. 

 Tyrone." 



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

 Yol. II., Science, Part 6.] 



By permission of the Academy, Professor Leith Adams, M.D.,. 



