Minutes of Proceedings. 59 



SPECIAL MEETIXG. 



Monday EvExixa, ArrarsT 12, 1878. 



SiK EoBEET E1\.XE, LL. D., F.E. S., in the Chair. 



By permission of the Academy, Dr. William Bernard read a Paper 

 " On the Exploration and Ptestoration of the Buins of the Grianan of 

 Aileach." [Tide Proceedings, toI. i., ser. ii., Polite Literature and 

 Antiquities, part 13.] 



Professor Casey read a Paper "On the Equations of Ciixdes." 

 [Tide Transactions, vol. xxvii., part 20.] 



The following Eecommendation of the Council was read, and 

 proposed by the Secretary for adoption by the Academy : — 



" £40 to ITr. W. H. Baily, towards expenses of preparing a Beport 

 ' On the Cambrian and Silurian Fossils of Ireland,' from the Parlia- 

 mentary Grant for Scientific Beports." 



The Becommendation was adopted. 



Mr. Patrick Trayner, Dublin, presented thi'ee volumes, containing^ 

 the manuscript Minutes of the Kirwinian Chemical Society, taken at 

 their meetings in the Academy on March 8, 1815, and on subsequent 

 occasions. 



The thanks of the Academy were voted to the donor. 



Dr. Bernard presented the objects he exhibited in connexion with 

 his Paper, as a donation to the Museum of the Academy. 



The thanks of the Academy were voted to the donor. 



Mo'DAT Etexing, Xovembee 11, 1878. 

 SiE BoBEET Kaxe, LL.D., F.B.S., President, in the Chair. 



The following Papers were read : — 



" On the Precessional Motion of the Earth, considered as a Solid 

 Shell filled with Liquid, devoid of Viscidity and Friction. " By Pro- 

 fessor Hennessy, F. B. S. 



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