164 Royal Irish Academy, 



With respect to the Annals of Ulster, the Council regret to have to 

 state that the expectations expressed in the last Report of a commence- 

 ment of the printing have not yet been fulfilled. 



I^umerous additions have been made within the past year to the 

 collections in the Museum. They include many objects of considerable 

 archseological interest — large double-conical beads of fine gold, of un- 

 doubted antiquity, lately found in the Co. Limerick, similar to those 

 already in the possession of the Academy ; a unique fibula of silver ; 

 an amulet, from Timoleague, Co. Cork, of admirable workmanship, in 

 the form of a caterpillar, studded with numerous coloured stones in 

 silver settings, known as the " conac," and long traditionally con- 

 nected in Ireland with the cure of the murrain in cattle ; an ancient 

 canoe of oak, found in the bed of the river Suck after the recent remark- 

 able bogslip in Corbally townland ; a knife of flint, with its original 

 moss hafting, from the river Bann. Amongst the objects recently be- 

 queathed to the Academy by the late Thomas M. Ray, Esq., of this 

 city, are several implements of the bronze and stone periods, from 

 various " finds " in Ireland ; cabinets of coins of various countries ; 

 medals commemorative of remarkable domestic and foreign events, in 

 silver, bronze, and other metals, some very curiously enamelled ; and 

 a singularly fine series of electrotyped medallions of the kings and 

 emperors of France. 



The Library has been repainted throughout ; and the book-cases, 

 presses, and shelves therein, together with those in the Reading Room 

 and Moore Library, numbered and lettered. 



The following Ordinary Members have been elected since the 16th 

 March, 1880:— 



1. "William A. Mahony, m.d. 



2. John Patrick Gannon. 



3. Arthur H. Angiin, m.a. 



4. Thomas Hughes Corry, m.a. 



5. John L. Robinson, c.e. 



6. Robert George Watts, m.d. 



7. Joseph Fletcher, f.c.s. 



8. Francis Davis Ward, j.p. 



9. Henry William Mackintosh, m.a. 



