306 Royal Irish Academy. 



The following Science Grants, recommended by Council, -were 

 sanctioned by the Academy : — 



£100 to a Committee, consisting of Lord Eosse, f.e.s., Prof. G. F. 

 Pitz Gerald, f.e.s., and Mr. E. Cnllum, to assist them in carrying on 

 the Magnetical Observatory at Valentia. 



£15 to Prof. G. A. J. Cole, to assist him in preparing a List of all 

 the Scientific Periodicals contained in the Tarious Public, or generally 

 accessible, Libraries in Dublin. 



£35 to a Committee, consisting of Dr. E. P. Scharff, Mr. P. W. 

 Moore, Mr. E. Lloyd Praeger, Mr. Greenwood Pim, Prof. T, Johnson, 

 Dr. Edmtmd J. Mc AVeeney, Mr. G. H. Carpenter, Mr. G. E. H. 

 Barrett-Hamilton, Mr. D. Mc Ardle, Mr. A. E. Mchols, and Mr. E. 

 J. TTssher, to assist them in continuing their investigations of the 

 Pauna and Plora of Ireland. 



£25 to Mr. E. A. Stewart Macalister, to assist h.im in carrying on 



his Eesearches into the Antiquities of the Pahan District. 



£25 to a Committee, consisting of Prof. D. J. Cunningham, p.e.s., 

 Dr. C. E. Erowne, and Professor A. C. Haddon, to assist them in 

 canying on the work of the Anthropometrical Laboratory, and the 

 Ethnographical Survey of Ireland. 



Considerable progress has been made during the year in the 

 preparation of slips for the Irish Dictionaiy, the Editor having secured 

 the services of two additional assistants — Mr. William Parker, m.a., 

 and Eev. Charles K. Pooler, ii.A. 



During the Academic Year, the Council appointed Mr. E, J. 

 Gwynn, m.a., to the office of Todd Professor of the Celtic Languages, 

 aud he will to-day complete his first series of Lectures — Subject : 

 " A Portion of the Poetical Dindsenchas." 



"With respect to the Amials of Ulster, the Council regret to have to 

 state that, in consequence of a serious fire which occurred on the 

 12th October, 1898, on the premises of the Queen's Printers (Messrs. 

 A. Thom and Co.), a number of sheets of the Pourth Yolume, which 

 had been printed oil, were destroyed. This has caused considerable 

 delay in the publication of the volume, but the printers report that 



