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parts of the Academy House. The main staircase has been painted 

 throughout, and the Eeading-room has been re-decorated. 



Another measure, referred to in last year's Eeport, has been 

 carried ■' out, in order to the greater security of the Academy's 

 treasures, in the proyision of a spacious fire-proof safe, in which are 

 now deposited the most precious of the MSS. belonging to the 

 Academy. 



During the past year many valuable objects have been added to 

 the collections in the Academy, comprising — fibulse of gold, bronze 

 weapons and implements, fictile and wooden vessels, an ancient 

 Irish "skin-hood," and a crozier-head of white bronze plated with 

 silver, a most interesting example of mediaeval Irish art. 



The Library, besides the oixlinary additions by way of exchange 

 and purchase, among other donations, has received, by the be- 

 quest of Sir Thomas Larcom, the valuable present of upwards of 300 

 volumes, all of which have been duly catalogued and made accessible 

 to the Members of the Academy. Another important addition has 

 been made also, in the acquisition of a body of papers, the work of 

 the late Sir William "Wilde, containing material for the continuation 

 of the Catalogue of the lluseum. 



In addition, the Library has been honoured with a welcome pre- 

 sent from the Government of Prance, consisting of fifteen volumes 

 of the Domments Inklits siir VHistoire de France. 



In accordance with the request of the Moore Centenary Committee 

 and of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, the Council lent to that Committee 

 various objects in the possession of the Academy, which had belonged 

 to Thomas Moore, to form part of a collection of mementos of the 

 poet, to be exhibited on the occasion of the Centenary celebration. 

 All the objects have since been safely restored. 



In the Session just past, Cunningham medals were awarded to the 

 following members of the Academy — 



Kobert S. Ball, li.d., f.e.s., and 

 William Archer, f. e. s. ; 



to the former for his Researches in Mechanics, to the latter for his Bio- 

 logical Researches. The cordial approval of the Academy in sanctioning 



