214 Royal Irish Academy. 



Monday Evening, Janttaet 22, 1883. 



Sm Samttel Feegttson, q.c, ll.d., President, in the Chair. 



Professor "Valentine Ball, f.e. s., read a Paper "On Indian Brass 

 Castings." 



Dr. Macalister read " A Description of a Series of Egyptian 

 Scarabsei," which he exhibited. 



Dr. Macalister read a Paper " On the Crania of IS'atiTes of the 

 Solomon Islands," which was illustrated by the exhibition of the 

 Crania. 



The Secretary read for Mr. H. C. Hart " A Eeport on the Botany 

 of the Mayo and Galway Mountains." 



The Secretary read, on behalf of Captain Dunne, an account of 

 a Canoe from Castlebar, presented to the Academy by him. The 

 Canoe was found, during drainage operations, in the Castlebar Lake, 

 or Lough Euadh ; it lay under a pile building like those frequently 

 found in the Swiss Lakes, but peculiar in having traces of cyclopean 

 building around the piles ; it was originally 32 feet long, but about 

 6 feet of what was the prow has decayed. Two much smaller Canoes 

 were found at the same time, and one still remains in situ, but not 

 accessible without great labour. Plint arrow and spear heads, and 

 a sharp bone tool, were in the Canoe when raised. 



The thanks of the Academy were voted to Captain Dunne for 

 the Donation, 



Dr. Macalister exhibited the Mummy of Tes-net-per, daughter of 

 Tefnecht, a priestess of ITeith, probably of the twenty-first dynasty, 

 and read an account of the Inscriptions. By permission of Lord 

 James Butler, the Mummy case was exhibited, and the special thanks 

 of the Academy were accorded to his Lordship. 



The Secretary read the list of Donations, and the thanks of the 

 Academy were accorded to the respective Donors. 



On the Academy proceeding to private business, the President 

 made a statement regarding the action of the Council of the Academy 

 in relation to the proposed Charter for the Eoyal Dublin Society. 



The Eev. The Provost of Trinity College expressed his concur- 

 rence in the action of the Council. 



