150 Royal Irish Academy. 



"In virtue of your exalted office, your Excellency is constituted 

 under our Cliarter Yisitor of tlie Academy. We feel assured that the 

 objects and functions of our Institution being such as they are will 

 meet with your consideration and support." 



Monday EYi;:N'rN'G, June 14, 1880. 

 Sir Robert Kane, ll.d., f.r.s., President, in the Chair. 



The President announced that he and the Members of the Academy 

 were received by His Excellency Earl Cowper, Lord Lieutenant of 

 Ireland, on the 7th inst. 



The Address adopted at the last Meeting was read by the Presi- 

 dent, to which His Excellency made the following Reply : — 



"Pray accept my best thanks for your congratulations on my 

 arrival here as Representative of Her Majesty the Queen. 



" Your important duties, and the admia'able manner in which they 

 are performed, are well known to me. 



" The Papers read at your different Meetings, your fac-simile 

 editions of curious MSS., and your other publications will, now that 

 I have so cogent a reason for taking a deep interest in all that 

 concerns Ireland, be of the greatest interest and advantage to me. 



" I look forward also, with the anticipation of much instructive 

 entertainment, to making acquaintance with your valuable Museum 

 of Antiquities, and to the means it will afford me of obtaining a 

 better knowledge of the ancient civilization of this island. 



"If my office of Yisitor to your Academy — an office which I 

 assure you I feel both pride and pleasure in filling — should give me 

 any opportunity of being useful to you in the execution of your 

 various functions, you may at all times command my services." 



E. "W. Davy, m.d., read a preliminary Report " On some jS'ew 

 Organic Mtroprussides." 



Resolved — "That a Grant of £15 be made to Mr. Edward 



