256 Royal Irish Academy. 



By permission of the Academy, Dr. Eichard A. Hayes read "A 

 Eeport on Micro-photograpliic Methods." 



The Secretary read, for Messrs. Balkwill and Wright, '' A Report on 

 the recent Foraminifera of DubHn and Wicklow." No. 2. 



The Secretary read a Paper, for Mr. T.Arnold, " On the Ashburnham 

 MSS." 



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

 Academy were accorded to the respective Donors. 



MoifDAY EvExiJfG, May 28, 1883. 

 SiK Samijel Feegtjsoij", q.c, ll.d., President, in the Chair. 



A Paper by the late Lord Talbot deMalahide, entitled, '' Canarian 

 Traditions about the Island of St. Brendan " was read by the 

 Secretary. 



It was proposed by Mr. J. E. Garstin, and seconded by Dr. Joyce, 

 and 



Besolted. — '' That the Academy desires to record its sorrowful 

 appreciation of the loss which it has sustained by the death of Lord 

 i Talbot de Malahide, who was so long associated with the Academy as 



a Member of its Council, who filled the Presidential Chair, and whose 

 abiding interest in the work of the Antiquarian Department is evi- 

 denced by his contribution of the Paper just now read." 



The Secretary read, for Mr. A. H. Anglin, the following Papers : — 



" (a) To expand -jr-- in powers of x, and to find the Coefficient of 



J{x) 



the Greneral Term where f{x) is a Rational Integral Func- 

 tion of X of n Dimensions." 



" (B) To expand -;-- in powers of x, and to find the Coefficient of 



f{x) 



the Greneral Term where /(a;) consists of a Series of Quad- 

 ratic Factors." 



" (y) To expand log -— in powers of x, and to find the Coefficient 



of the General Term where f{x) is a Rational Integral 

 Function of ^." 



