Minutes of Proceedings. 159 



Monday Evening, Febeitaet 14, 1881. 

 The Eev. Peofessob Hatjghion, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following Reply from Mrs. Lloyd to the 

 President, acknowledging the Resolution passed by the Academy in 

 recording their sense of the loss sustained by the Academy in the 

 death of the late Provost of Trinity College : — 



"Peovost's House, 



''Felrmry 1, 1881. 

 *' Deae Sie Robeet, 



" I BEG you to express to the Council and Members of 

 the Royal Irish Academy my grateful sense of their kindly feeling 

 towards, and cordial appreciation of, my late husband shown in their 

 Resolution of January 24th. 



" I should sooner have made this acknowledgment, had I not been 

 hindered by illness. 



" Believe me, 



" Very truly yours, 

 (Signed) "Doea Lloyd." 



The Chairman declared the Ballot open, and requested Dr. Sigerson 

 and Mr. Doherty to act as Scrutineers. 



The Secretary read Notes on some Crania, sent to the College 

 Museum by Dr. "W. H. Hart, Colonial Surgeon, Sierra Leone. 



The Secretary announced the discovery of a Kitchen Midden Heap 

 of Shells, in the same locality as that from which the Human Remains 

 were taken which formed the subject of Dr. Prazer's Paper in a late 

 number of the Academy's Proceedings (vol. ii., ser. ii,, p. 29, Polite 

 Literature and Antiquities). 



The shells formed a heap covering about twelve square feet, and 

 six inches high, lying under cover of eighteen inches of surface soil. 

 The shells were cockles, mussels, and periwinkles, mixed with broken 

 bones of the ox and sheep, and lying on the boulder clay. 



Dr. Ingram, v.p., here took the Chair, while the Rev. S. Haughton 

 read the continuation of his "Researches (Part I.) on Sun-heat, with 

 special regard to the Source of the Heat which gave to the Arctic 

 Regions in Tertiary times the present Climate of Lombardy." 



