178 Royal Irish Academy, 



Mo^^)AY EvENiKG, JxrsE 13j 1881. 



Sm EoBEET Kaije, li.d., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. "Wm. J. Eiiowles, by permission of the Academy, read a Paper 

 " On a Find of Plint Implements, &c., at Dundmm, Co. Down." 



Mr. L. E. Dreyer read a Paper " On the Astronomical Instmments 

 in the Old Observatory at Pekin." 



Dr. Macalister exhibited a Photograph of the Great Tablet of the 

 Kings of Egypt, found in a passage in the temple at Harabat el Mad- 

 founieh, Abydos, by M. Diimichen, of which he published an account 

 in the "Zeitschrift fiir Aegyptische Sprache," October, 1864. In this 

 table Sell the Eirst and his son, Eamses, are represented as doing 

 homage and saying a Suten ta hetep to the spirits of seventy-six of 

 their predecessors. The great interest of the Tablet is that the list of 

 names seems in exact chronological order. 



Mr. D. <r. Ereeman was elected a Member of the Academy. 



The Secretary laid on the table part 4 of vol. xxvii. of the Transac- 

 tions of the Academy, being Sir Samuel Ferguson's Fasciculus of 

 Prints from Photographs of Casts of Ogham Inscriptions. 



The Secretary read the list of Donations to the Academy, and the 

 thanks of the Academy were given to the respective Donors. 



The Secretary announced that, in accordance with the bye-laws, 

 there was now laid on the table a list of Members whose subscription 

 for the year ending 16th March, 1881, have not yet been paid. 



Mo2n)AY Evening, Jri^E 27, 1881. 

 SiK RoBEET Kai^, ii.D., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read for Mr. Hardman a Eeport " On the Soundings 

 of Lough GiU, Co. Sligo." 



Dr. Davy read for himself and Dr. Cameron a joint Eeport " On 

 Some New Compounds of Selenium." 



