4 Royal Irish Academy. 



It was Resolved — • 



" That the several proceedings of Council relative to the Cunning- 

 ham Fund, commencing December 12, 1875, the petition in this 

 matter, and the draft letter of instruction be printed, and a copy- 

 thereof be sent to each and every of the Members ; and that the 

 subject-matter of said letter of instruction be taken up by the 

 Academy at its meeting of the 14th January, 1878." 



Monday EvEi^iifG, Decembee 10, 1877. 

 Samtjel Peegxtsox, LL. D., Yice-President, in the Chair. 



Charles Smith, Esq., Barrow-in-Furness, was elected a Member of 

 the Academy. 



The following Papers were read : — 



'' On Schutzenberger's Process for the Volumetric Estimation of 

 Oxygen iu "Waters." By C. C. Hutchinson, Esq. [Yide Proceedings,. 

 vol. iii., ser. ii., part 2.] 



" Observations on Double Stars." By Dr. Briinnow. 



Monday Evening, jAiruAEY 14, 1878. 

 Sib Eobeet "Kane, F, E. S., President in the Chair. 



B.ead, the following letter from the Science and Art Department 

 of 21st December, 1878. 



"Science and Art Depaetment, 



" SoriH EJENSINGTON, S. "W., 



" 2lst Decemler, 1877. 

 "Sir, 



" It was stated in the letter of the Yice-President of the Com- 

 mittee of Council on Education, dated the 8th of February, 1876, on 

 the subject of the formation of a Science and Art Museum in Ireland, 

 that their Lordships earnestly desii'ed to retain the advantage of the 

 assistance and authority which the continued co-operation of the 

 Societies with the Government, in this more extensive national im- 



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