304 Royal Irish Academy. 



Thdesdat, Mauch 16, 1899. 



(Stated Meeting.) 



Right Hon. The Eael oe Rosse, k.p., f.e.s., President, in tlie Chair. 



Mr. Philip Herbert Hore signed the Roll, and was admitted a 

 Member of the Academy. 



The Ballot was opened for the election of President and Council 

 for the ensuing year : Mr. G. L. Cathcart and Mr. J. E. Gore were 

 appointed Scrutineers. 



The Secretary of the Council read the following : — 



Repoet of the Coijncii, eoe the Teae 1898-9. 



Since the date of the last Report the following Publications of the 

 Academy have been issued : — 



Transactions, vol. xxxi. 

 Part 6. "On New Papyrus-Fragments from the Ashmolean 

 Museum at Oxford." Ry the Rev. John P. Mahaffy, d.d. 



Proceedings. 



Of the Proceedings, Third Series, Part 5 of Vol. iv., was published 

 in May, 1898, and contained the following Papers : — 



*' On the Orientation of some Cromlechs in the neighbourhood of 

 Dublin." (Part i.) By Professor J. P. O'Reilly, c.e. 



" On the Orientation of some Cromlechs in the neighbourhood of 

 Dublin." (Part ii.) By Professor J. P. O'Reilly, c.e. 



■* Report on the Musci and Hepaticse of the County Cavan." By 

 David M'Ardle. 



" On the effects of Stimulative and Anaesthetic Gases on Transpiration." 

 (Preliminary Note.) By Henry H. Dixon, d.sc. 



^* Transpiration into a Saturated Atmosphere." By Henry H. Dixon, 

 D.sc. 



^* Remarks supplementary to Dr. Joyce's Paper on the Occurrence of 

 the Number Two in Irish Proper Names." By Rev. T. Olden, d.d. 



