Minutes of Proceedings. 303 



Monday, Febetjaet 13, 1899. 



Mr. JohkEibtoit GaestiNj b.d., f.s.a., d.l., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Eev. Eichard Barry Doyle was elected a Member of the Academy. 



Mr. Edward Grwynn, m.a., read his second Todd Memorial Lecture- 

 on " Portions of the Poetical Dindsenchas." 



Professor P. Atkinson, ll.d., read a Paper on "The root tong in 

 Irish." 



The following Science Grant, recommended by the Council, was 

 sanctioned : — 



£25 to a Committee consisting of Professor D. J. Cunningham, 

 r.E.s., Dr. C. P. Browne, and Prof. A. C. Haddon to assist them in 

 carrying on the work of the Anthropometrical Laboratory and the 

 Ethnographical Survey of Ireland. 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks were voted 

 to the Donors. 



Monday, EEBErAHY 27, 1899, 



Eight Hon. The Eael of Eosse, k.p., ll.d., e.e.s., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. Edward J. Gwynn, m.a., read his Third Todd Memorial 

 Lecture on "Portions of the Poetical Dindsenchas." 



Eev. J. P. Mahaffy, d.d., read on behalf of Me. J. Gilbaet Shyly, 

 m.a., and himself " Additional jSTotes on the Petrie Papyri, published 

 in the Cunningham Memoirs of the Eoyal Irish Academy." 



Lieut.-Colonel G. T. Plunkett, f.e.g.s., read a Paper " On a Pre- 

 historic Cist, recently acquired for the Museum." 



The Secretary of Council read for the Yery Eev. Sylvester Malone, 

 V.G., a jSTote on " Pope Adrian's Privilege to Henry II." 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks were voted 

 to the Donors. 



