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such, research., hy maintainiiig a Library specially adapted to assist 

 learned investigation, and by editing and printing ancient Irish 

 Texts. 



" 6. That the Academy should be accountable, as at present, to 

 Her Majesty's Treasury, thtrougli the Irish. GroTemment, for the sum 

 to be th.us voted by Parliament, and should not be subject, in the con- 

 daet of its affair's, or the expenditure of its Grants, to any control on 

 the part of the Science and Ai-t Department, or any of its officers." 



It vas Resolved — 



That the Eesolutions recommended by the Council for th.e adoption 

 of tlie Academy, as no"^ laid before the Academy, together -with Lord 

 Sandon's letter, be printed and circulated among the Members, and 

 that the Academy do now adjourn to Monday next, the 6th. of March, 

 vhen the above-mentioned Eesolutions and letter will be considered. 



The Secretary read the following names proposed by the Council 

 to the Society for election on the 16th of March, as Honorary Mem- 

 bers : — 



Thomas Carlyle ; Margaret Stokes ; "William Stubbs ; Eugene E. 

 YioUet-le-due ; Ernst ^indisch; Ernst Haeckel ; 'Wilhelm Borchardt; 

 Alphonse Decandolle. 



The Academy then adjourned. 



Mo:s'DAT EvBXDTG, Maech 6, 1876. 



(Adjour-ned Meeting.) 



"WrLi.iA:j: Stoees, M.D., E.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Dr. Ingram, Secretary of the Council, made a statement in refer- 

 ence to the letter of Lord Sandon, previous to moving the Ptesolutions 

 recommended by the Council for the adoption of the Academy. — ( Vide 

 Jlinutes ofjprevious Meeting.) 



Epon which Mi'. J. J. Digges LaTouche moved, and J. E. Garstin 

 LL. B., E.S.A., seconded, the following as Amendments : — 



"1. That the Eoyal Irish Academy, being desirous of co-operating 

 with Her Majesty's Government on the measures necessary for the 

 establishment of a Xational Science and Ai't Museum in Dublin, pro- 



