Minutes of Proceedings. 153 



The President declared the Ballot open for the election of a Secre- 

 tary to the Academy. 



The Secretary of the Council (Dr. Atkinson) read the recommen- 

 dation of the Council that Mr. A. Edgar be appointed Clerk of the 

 Academy in the place of the late ITr. CKbbom. 



The President declared the Ballot open for the election of a Clerk 

 of the Academy. 



Sir Samuel Ferguson, ll.d., presented a Fasiculus of Prints from 

 Photographs of Casts of Ogham Inscriptions, and read an abstract of 

 an Introduction thereto. 



Sir Samuel Ferguson, ll.d., read a Paper " On Sepulchral Cellse." 



Dr. F. A. Tarleton, f.t.c.d., read a Paper " On Chemical Equili- 

 brium." 



The following Papers were taken as read : — 



Mr. Thomas Plunkett's, " On two Log Huts discovered in the Coal- 

 bog, Co. Fermanagh, twenty-one feet below the surface of the peat." 



Professor J. Emerson Pteynolds, m.d., f.e.s., " Pteports on experi- 

 ments on the comparative action of the Isomeric bodies Sulpho- 

 Cyanate of Ammonium and Sulpho-TJrea, on the growth of certain 

 plants." 



The Secretary read a Paper for Professor W. King, n.sc. : " Eeport 

 on the Pielation of Ptock- jointing to Phenomena in Physical Geography 

 and Physical Greology," Part I. 



The Secretary read a Paper for Geo. Ai-mstrong, c.e. : " On a dis- 

 coveiy of Human Eemains in the neighbourhood of Dundalk." 



The Secretary laid on the table the first volume of the Irish 

 Manuscript Quarto Series, Part I., "On the Calendar of CEngus," by 

 Whitley Stokes, ll.d. 



A list of Donations was read, and the thanks of the Academy were 

 voted to the Donors. 



The Scrutineers having reported, the President declared that 

 John Patrick Gannon, Esq., Laragh, Co. Eildare, and Arthur H. 

 Anglin, Esq., b.a., Cambridge, and m.a., Queen's University, Ireland, 

 were duly elected Members of the Academy ; that Professor Alexander 

 Macalister was duly elected Secretary of the Academy; and that 

 Alfred Edgar, Esq., was duly elected Clerk of the Academy. 



