204 Royal Irish Academy. 



Monday Evening, Apeil 10, 1882. 

 SiE Samuel Ferguson, q.c, ll.d., President, in the Chair. 



The President, in postponing the Ballot for the vacant place on 

 Council, to which the name of Denis Florence MacCarthy (deceased on 

 the 7th inst.) had been recommended for election, expressed his sense 

 of the great loss the Academy had sustained in the death of that dis- 

 tinguished Irish poet and man of letters. ' 



Dr. Tichborne read for the author. Professor J. Emerson Eeynolds, 

 M.D., a Paper " On the Growth of Tobacco Plants under the Influence 

 of two Metameric Bodies." 



Dr. Ingram read a Paper '' On two Collections of Mediaeval Mora- 

 lized Tales." 



Dr. Sigerson, for the Secretary, laid on the table two Papers by 

 Professor J. C. Malet, m.a. : 



(1). " On the Equation of a Tangent Cone to a Quadric referred 



to the Axes." 

 (2). "On certain Definite Integrals," 

 The following Donations were announced to the Academy : — 



A bronze Spear-head found in the Shannon, near Tarmonbarry, in 

 1869. Presented by Rev, Dr. Clarke, m.r.i.a. 



A "Marsh MS." which formed part of the Sproule Collection. 

 Presented by Mr. Marc Pontet, c.e. 



E. J. Mahony, d.i-. and Francis J. O'Farrell, p.c.s. were elected 

 Members of the Academy. 



Monday Evening, Apeil 24, 1882. 



Sib Samuel Feeguson, q.c, ll.d., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. J. E. Gore, having signed the EoU, was admitted a Member 

 of the Academy. 



^p The President called the attention of the Members of the Academy 

 to the Petrie Collection of Drawings which Miss Stokes had carefully 



