86 Royal Irish Academy. 



SPECIAL MEETING. 



Fkidat EvEifiNG, Apeil 18, 1879. 



Sir Robert Kaxe, E.E.S., &c., President, in the Chair. 



The consideration of the Reports of the Council was resumed. It 

 was Resolved : — " To proceed with the Report on the Editorship of 

 the Book of Leinster." 



On the Editorship op the Book op LEijfSTEE.. 



This Report was read as follows by the Secretary of Council, who 

 moved its adoption : — 



On the 14th December, 1872, a Resolution was passed by the Com- 

 mittee to the effect — 



" That the President be requested to communicate to the Board of 

 Trinity College, Dublin, that this Committee is prepared to undertake 

 the production of a lithographic fac-simile of the Book of Leinster, 

 similar in style to Leabhar Breac and Leabhar na h-Uidhri." 



This Resolution the Secretary was desired to communicate to the 

 President, with a request that he would be good enough to take such 

 steps as he might deem desirable in the matter, and to inform the Com- 

 mittee of the result. 



At this same Meeting, prior to the passing of this Resolution, the 

 Committee had had laid before them " A Descriptive Catalogue of the 

 Contents of the Book of Leinster," by Mr. O'Looney, when the fol- 

 lowing Resolution was passed : — 



"That when funds are available, the Treasurer be authorized to 

 pay Mr. O'Looney for preparing a catalogue of the contents of the 

 Book of Leinster such amount as shall be certified by the Secretary of 

 the Academy and the Librarian." 



The catalogue laid on the table by Mr. O'Looney was a necessary 

 preliminary to any recommendation on the part of this Committee to 

 the Board of Trinity College to co-operate in the undertaking of this 

 work, as the descriptive catalogue of MSS. in Trinity College Library 

 does not enter into any detail of the contents of that MS. 



The catalogue should, by the terms of the Resolution, have become 

 the property of the Academy, on payment of the sum duly certified. 



