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the most important of our ancient manuscripts. The painting and 

 other work now in course of execution in the Crypts and Supplemental 

 Library will, when completed, effect a substantial and much-needed 

 improvement in those portions of the Academy's premises. 



The grants in aid of the preparation of Scientific Eeports, recom- 

 mended by the Committee of Science, approved by the Council, and 

 now submitted for the sanction of the Academy, are as follows : — 



£25 to C. E. C. Tichborne, F. C. S., for Eesearches upon the gene- 

 ral diffusion of Fluorine in Animal Concretions, &c. 



£25 to E. T. Hardman, F. C. S., for Apparatus and Chemicals to 

 enable him to continue his Chemico-Geological Eesearches. 



£20 to A. G. More, F. L. S., for the Examination of the Flora o£ 

 the South and "West of Ireland. 



£12 to A. Leith Adams, F. E. S., towards the expenses of collecting 

 materials relating to the Natural History of the Irish Elk, with the 

 view of producing a Monograph on the subject. 



£18 to Eev. J. H. Jellett, B. D., for Eesearches on the Eolations 

 between Light and Electricity. 



£70 to Professor Oswald Heer of Zurich, for an Investigation of 

 the Tertiary Flora of Antrim. 



£30 to Dr. Macalister, for purchase of rare specimens to carry out 

 Embryological Eesearches. 



The Council thought it their duty to address a Memorial to the 

 Lord President of the Committee of Council on Education, calling his 

 attention to the composition of the Committee for the administration of 

 the grant of £4000 now annually voted by Parliament for the encou- 

 ragement of Scientific Eesearch, and urging the inadequacy of the re- 

 presentation of Ireland on that body. In taking this step, they acted 

 in conjunction with the Eoyal Society of Edinburgh, and, besides sup- 

 porting a similar claim put forward by that learned body, the Council 

 prayed that this Academy should have in future two Eepresentatives 

 on the Committee, instead of one, as had been previously an-anged. In 

 reply, we were informed that, after communicating with the Eoyal So- 

 ciety, the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education had approved 

 of the Academy having a second Eepresentative in addition to its Pre- 

 sident ; and the Council accordingly nominated Mr. Eobert Mallet, a 

 distinguished Member of the Academy, to act in that capacity on its 

 behalf. 



