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£12 to Professor Leith Adams for a Eeport on Irish Pleistocene 

 Mammals. 



£50 to the Rev. Professor Haiighton for a Report on the Tidal Con- 

 stants of the Irish Coasts (towards the sum of £100 required for the ex- 

 penses to be incurred). 



£25 to Dr. Studdert and llr. Plunkctt for a Report on the ISTature 

 of the Mineral Waters of Mallow. 



£20 to Dr. Chichester Bell towards investigating the Chemical 

 Constitution of Pyrrol. 



£40 12s. 8d. to Dr. Emerson Reynolds towards investigating the 

 Atomic Weight of Grlucinum ; and 



£10 to Dr. E. P. Wright for Report on Chytridia parasitic on 

 Floridese. 



An application was made to the Council in May, 1875, on behalf 

 of the Arctic Expedition, for the use of the spectroscope made under the 

 superintendence of Mr. Burton for the Academy, as being the best in 

 existence for feeble light, and therefore specially adapted for observa- 

 tions of the ISTorthern Aurora. The Council thought it right to 

 give the use of the instrument for this important pubKc purpose, an 

 undertaking being, of course, obtained that the spectroscope should be 

 returned at the close of the expedition. 



An important communication was lately received from Lord San- 

 don, Yice-President of the Committee of Council on Education, 

 announcing the intended establishment in this city of a Science and 

 Art Museum for Ireland, and suggesting the transfer of the Academy's 

 antiquarian collections to Her Majesty's Government, and the removal 

 of the Academy itself from its present premises to Leinstex House. 

 This communication having been fully considered by the Academy at 

 a very recent meeting, it appears unnecessary to enter into particulars 

 respecting it in this Report, especially as no further communi- 

 cation on the subject has since been received from the Government. 

 The letter of Lord Sandon and the Resolutions adopted by the Academy 

 in relation to it, have been printed in the Minutes (pp. cxi. and cxvi.) 



The Treasurer informs the Council that he has every reason to 

 anticipate that the accounts for the year ending with the present 

 month, which will shortly be published, will exhibit a highly satis- 

 factory state of the finances of the Academy. 



"We have lost by death within the year, tliree Honorary Members 

 viz. : — 



