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SAitniDAY Eyexixg, Maech 15, 1879. 



(Stated Meeting.) 



Sm RoBEKT Kane, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Cliair. 



Yisitors were admitted. 



The President declared the Ballot open for the election of 

 Members of Council. 



The Secretary of Council brought up the following 



Report of the Couj^cil foe, the YEATt 1878-9. 



Since the date of the last Eeport of the Council, the following- 

 Parts of the Transactions have been published : — 



Vol. xxrii. — Polite Literature and Antiq^idties. 



Part 2. "On an Ogam Inscription." By the Eight Eev. Charles 

 ^Graves, D.D., Lord Bishop of Limerick. 



Vol. xxvi. — Science. 



Part 11. "On the Aspect of_ Mars at the Oppositions of 1871 and 

 1873." By C. E. Burton. 



Part 12. " Direct Demonstration of the Properties of the Pirst 

 Negative Pedal of a Central Conic from any Point in its Plane." By 

 John C. Malet, M.A. 



Part 13. "On the Intersections of Plane Curves of the Third 

 Order." By A. S. Hart, LL.D. 



Part 14. " On a Proof that every Equation has a Eoot." By 

 J. C. Malet, M.A. 



Part 15. " On a certain Surface derived from a Q,uadi'ic." By 

 J. C. Malet, M.A. 



Part 16. "Attempt to deduce the General Laws of the Variations 

 of Temperature at the Earth's Surface from those of Solar and Terres- 

 trial Eadiation." By the Eev. H. Lloyd, D.D. 



Part 17. " Eeport on the Acanthology of the Desmosticha, Part I.' 

 By H. W. Mackintosh, B.A. 



Part 18. "On the Cell Structure of Griffithsia setacea." By 

 E. P. Wright, M.D. 



