218 Royal Irish Academy. 



£25 to Dr. E. "W. Davy in aid of Eesearches in the Physical and 

 Chemical Properties of the Alkaloids. 



£15 to Mr. H. C. Hart for Exploration of the Botany of the Coast 

 Line of Ireland. 



£20 to Messrs. E. P. Balkwill and J. Wright in aid of further 

 Researches in the Eoraminifera of Dublin Bay. 



£25 to Dr. Macalister to purchase Skulls of the Peninsular and 

 Insular Eaces of "Western Europe, for comparison with Irish Crania. 



£50 to Dr. Doberck for a Magnetic Survey of Ireland. 



£ 1 to Dr. Cameron for Eesearches on the lodates and Bromates of 

 the Alkaloids. 



£30 to Mr. H. C. Hart for the continued Botanical Examination 

 of the Mountains of Ireland. 



During the present year the Academy's Todd Professor delivered 

 his first series of Lectures, which are now in the Press, and will be 

 published shortly. 



The Council regret that the Yery Eev. Dean Eeeves, Editor of the 

 Annals of Ulster, has found himself compelled to resign the editorship 

 of that work, owing to the state of his health and the pressure of offi- 

 cial and other duties, but the Council have taken steps to carry out the 

 publication of that important work by forwarding to the Government, 

 with the hearty concurrence of Dean Eeeves, the name of an eminent 

 Irish scholar, Mi\ Hennessy, the Academy's Todd Professor of the 

 Celtic Languages, as the proposed Editor of the Annals. 



During the present year about eighty pages of the Boole of Bally- 

 mote have been photographed, sixty-six additional pages have been 

 printed off, and one hundred pages are in a forward state of prepara- 

 tion, so that the anticipation of the preceding Eeport has been fairly 

 met. 



The additions to the collections in the Museum, acquired by pur- 

 chase within the past year, comprise about two hundred objects, 

 chiefly in flint and bronze. 



The Donations, during the same period, consist of a series of pre- 

 historic implements from Banda, N. W. Provinces of India ; an ancient 

 Irish harp ; a unique spinning machine of wood ; portion of a massive 

 gold-plated unclosed ring, with rude archaic markings ; and a canoe, 

 found during the drainage operations in Lough Euadh, in the vicinity 

 of Castl'ebar. 



