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been placed in well-arranged cases in the adjoining apartments of our 

 first floor, whilst space for the deposit and exhibition of objects of 

 a greater size, as well as of our surplus collections of bronze and iron, 

 has been obtained by the conversion of our basement storey into a suite 

 of four apartments, extending through a length of 140 feet, and 

 haying, through the greater part of this extent, a breadth of 40 feet. 

 Although these apartments are low-ceiled and not well lighted by day, 

 they suflS.ce for our present wants, especially as effective artificial 

 lighting has been provided for evening exhibitions. Evening openings, 

 to which the public might be admitted, have been constantly, kept in 

 view during these preparatory operations, and the work has now 

 advanced to a state of completion which will probably allow of such 

 admissions within the present Session. A Handbook for visitors on 

 such occasions is in course of preparation, and will shortly be 

 issued. The Council extract from it, and append to this Report, 

 two plans of our principal and basement Museums, which give a 

 comprehensive view of the present state of the arrangements, and 

 which, it is believed, will show that the Academy, in this branch 

 of its functions, has utilized to the utmost the space and means at 

 its disposal, for the interests of antiquarian learning, and the in- 

 struction of the public. 



It may here be mentioned that the amoiint available for the 

 continuation of the Museum Catalogue, invested in Bank of Ireland 

 stock, represents a sum exceeding one hundred pounds. 



The second and concluding volume of the Academy's edition of 

 the Leabhar Brcac has been published within the year, and the work 

 of transcribing and lithographing the Book of Leinster is in progress. 

 Mr. O'Longan, assisted in the collation by Professor O'Looney, has 

 executed his facsimile transcript of that manuscript as far as page 

 200, a portion which comprises nearly half the work, and the whole 

 of this portion has already been printed. 



The attention of the Council having been called to a letter pub- 

 lished in the "Eevue Celtique" for February, 1875, in which certain 

 errors of transcription were alleged to exist in the Academy's edition 

 of the Leabhar na-h-TJidhri, the Committee of Polite Literature and 

 Antiquities was requested to examine into the alleged errors. That 

 Committee accordingly conducted such an inquiry, and embodied the 

 results at which it arrived in a Ecport, which was adopted by the 



