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the funds at their disposal for the publication of the numerous import- 

 ant Papers read before the Academy, were inadequate for the purpose, 

 have had under consideration a plan for allocating more funds to this 

 object, and have adopted a scheme of retrenchment, (which cannot, 

 however, be brought into operation for some time), by which the various 

 functions of the Academy will still be carried on in a suitable manner, 

 at the same time that the publication of Papers shall not receive 

 any disheartening check from deficiency of the necessary means. 



The following grants in aid of the Preparation of Scientifie 

 Eeports have been already sanctioned by the Academy : — 



£50 to a Committee consisting of Mr. Gr. H. Kinahan, Mr. R. J. 

 TJssher, and Professor Leith Adams, for the purpose of exploring the 

 Cappagh Caves, near Dungarvan. 



£15 to Professor J. Emerson Reynolds for the purchase of a con- 

 siderable quantity of Sulpho-Urea to make experiments on the com- 

 parative actions of the Isomeric Bodies, Sulpho-Cyanate of Ammonium, 

 and Sulpho- Urea, on the growth of certain plants. 



£50 to Messrs. G. H. Kinahan and W. H. Baily for the purpose 

 of investigating the Possils and Igneous Rocks of the Curlew and 

 Pintona Beds. 



£10 to Mr. R. M. Barrington to enable him to investigate the 

 Plora of the Blaskett Islands. 



£10 to Mr. H. C. Hart to enable him to investigate the Plora of 

 the Galtee Mountains. 



£20 to Mr. Phineas S. Abraham to assist him in the Microscopic 

 studies of the Marsupial Tissues. 



Attached is a schedule (Appendix A.) giving information as to the 

 progress of the Reports for which Grants from this fund have been 

 made from time to time, and it is the earnest wish of the Council that 

 the Secretaries be informed, at as early a date as possible, of the state 

 of the investigations for which the grants were made, and of the pro- 

 bable time when the Reports thereon may be expected. 



While the above statement sufficiently testifies to the activity of 

 the Academy on the side of science, the antiquarian interests have 

 not been neglected. Considerable progress has been made in the 

 department in which the Academy is naturally expected to aid the 

 prosecution of research, viz., in the advancement of Celtic studies. 



