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5. These communications having been taken into the consideration of 

 the Council at their Meeting this clay, it was unanimously Eesolvecl : — 



"That in the opinion of the Council an acquiescence in the 

 transfer of the vote for the Eoyal Irish Academy to the Science and 

 Art Department would be attended with consequences fatal to the in- 

 dependence, and highly detrimental to the usefulness, of the Academy." 



6. The Council propose to print this Report, and circulate it amongst 

 the Members of the Academy, with such further Report as the Council 

 may think expedient, and to take the opinion of the Academy at a 

 Special Meeting to be summoned for this day week — 



(1). On the wisdom of the action the Council has taken in 



repudiating the scheme of amalgamation; and 

 (2). On the propriety of declining to acquiesce in the transfer 

 of the accountability for the Parliamentary votes for the 

 Academy from the Irish Government to the Education De- 

 partment, South Kensington. 

 It was moved by Dr. Ingram, and seconded by Samuel Ferguson, 

 LL.D., and 



Resolved — " That the Report be printed and circulated amongst the 

 Members of the Academy, with such further report as the Council may 

 think expedient. And that the opinion of the Academy be taken at a 

 special meeting to be summoned for this day week, 29th May, 1 876, on — 



1. "The wisdom of the action the Council has taken in repudiating 



the scheme of amalgamation ; and on 



2. " The propriety of declining to acquiesce in the transfer of the 



accountability for the Parliamentary votes for the Academy 

 from the Irish Government to the Education Department, 

 South Kensinaton." 



Edmund Davy, M.D., read a paper " On a new Chemical Test for 

 Alcohol." 



[This paper will appear in the " Proceedings," Second Series, 

 Yol. II., Science, Part 6.] 



Rev. J. H. Jellett, B.D., read a paper "On certain Chemical Changes 

 attendant on the Potato Disease." 



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

 Yol. II., Science, Part 7.] 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 donors. 



