124 Royal Irish Academy. 



Eev. S. Haughton, m.d., p.e.s., and J. Emerson Reynolds, m.i)., 

 read their "Eeport on Experiments made to determine the Drag of 

 Air upon Air, and of "Water upon Water, at low velocities." [Tide 

 Proceedings, vol. iii., series ii., Science, part 4.] 



TxjESDAT EvEifiNG, March 16, 1880. 



SiE E.0BEii,T Kane, ll.d., e.e.s.. President, in the Chair. 



(Stated Meeting.) 



The President declared the Ballot open for the election of Members 

 of Council. Mr. Latouche and Dr. Sigerson were appointed Scrutineers. 

 The Secretary of the Council brought up the following : — 



E-EPORT OE the CouiirciL EOR THE Yeab, 1879-80. 



Since the date of the last Report of the Council, the following 

 Parts of the Transactions have been published : — 



Vol. xxvii. — Polite Literature and Antiquities. 



Part 3. "On the Croix Gammee or Swastika." By the Eight 

 Eev. Charles Graves, d.d., Lord Bishop of Limerick. 



Yol. xxvi. — Science. 



Part 20. " On the Equations of Circles." By J. Casey, ll.d. 



Part 21. " On the Correlation of Lines of Direction on the Earth's 

 Surface." By J. P. O'Eeilly, c.e. 



Part 22. *' Explanatory Notes and Discussion of the l^ature of the 

 Prismatic Forms of a Group of Columnar Basalts, Giant's Cause- 

 way." By J. P. O'Eeilly, c.e. 



The following Parts of the Transactions are in the Press, and will 

 be published immediately : — 



Vol. xxviii. — Science. 



Part 1. "On a new Genus and Species of Sponge." By E. P. 

 Wright, M.D. 



Part 2. "On two new Genera and Species of Thallophytes." By 

 E. P. Wright, M.D. 



Also of the Cimningliam Memoirs. 



No. 1. " Cubic Transformations." By John Casey, ll.d. 



