( cxy ) 



F.E.S., read a Eeport " On Ms Explorations of the Caves at Shandon, 

 with an Account of the Animal Eemains found therein." 



[This Eeport will be published as Part 5, Yol. XX YI. of the 

 " Transactions," with illustrations.] 



Dr. Ingram, Secretary of the Council, brought down the following 

 Ecsolutions of Council, as their Eeport to the Academy on the proposals 

 of the Grovemment contained in the letter of Lord Sandon, read at the 

 last Meeting of the Academy : — 



" 1. That the Eoyal Irish Academy is desirous of co-operating with 

 Her Majesty's Government in the measures necessary for the estab- 

 lishment of a National Science and Art Museum in Dublin, provided 

 that the independence and usefulness of the Academy be not in- 

 juriously affected by such measures. 



" 2. That, while we consent to the transfer of our Museum to the 

 Government, we thirLk that its arrangement, as well as the purchase 

 of additions, should be done through the Academy. 



"3. That, in thus assenting to the transfer of its Museum to the 

 Government, the Academy also think that adequate provision should 

 be made for the continued acquisition of Irish Antiquities, which may 

 hereafter be discovered, or offered for sale ; and that the collection 

 of the Academy, together with such other Irish antiquities as shall be 

 added to it, should be for ever kept apart from Miscellaneous Art col- 

 lections in the possession of the Government, and be permanently 

 maintained as a Museum of our National Antiquities, no portion of its 

 contents being ever removed from the city of Dublin. 



" 4. That, considering the position which the Academy has long 

 held, and will continue to hold, as the first Scientific, Literary, and 

 Antiquarian Society of the country, the proportional representation 

 proposed to be given to it on the Board of Yisitors (sect. 12 of 

 Lord Sandon's letter), is altogether inadequate ; and the Academy 

 further think that no paid official of the Science and Art Depart- 

 ment should be eligible to act as a representative on the Board. 



"5. That, as the Academy is making a substantial concession in 

 respect to its Museum, there should be provided in the yearly esti- 

 mates, as laid before Parliament, instead of the several sums now 

 annually voted, a sum of £2,000, to enable the Academy to discharge 

 more completely its functions as a Scientific and Literary body, by 

 making grants in aid of original research, by publishing the results of 



