Minutes of Proceedings. 263 



MoNDAx Evening, Decembee 10, 1883. 

 SiK Samtjel Feegtjson, ll.d., q.c, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. W. J. Knowles was elected a Member of the Academy. 



Mr. David E. Pigot, m.a., Yice-President, took the Chair, while 

 the President read a Paper '' On a Mode of Subaqueous Tunnelling." 



Mr. J. E. Garstin, f.s.a., read "IS'otes on some Irish Inscriptions 

 in the County Louth, as yet unpublished." 



Mr. Garstin exhibited and read " Some Extracts from a Manu- 

 script Journal, 1688-90, of Colonel Thomas Bellingham, an ancestor 

 of Sir Alan E. Bellingham, Bart." 



Mr. A. G. More, f.l.s., read a Paper prepared from the I^otes of 

 the late Thomas H. Corry, m.e.i.a., "On the Heights attained by 

 Plants on Ben Bulben." 



Donations were announced and thanks voted to the respective 

 Donors. 



Monday Evening, Janitaey 14, 1884. 

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



Mr. Robert "William Lowry and Dr. John Ereeman Knott signed 

 the EoU and were admitted Members of the Academy. 



The Eev. Stephen M'Ternan, p.p., and Professor Alfred Cort 

 Haddon, m.a., e.z.s., were elected Members of the Academy. 



The President, calling on Mr. John Birmingham, addressed him as 

 follows : — 



Me. Biemingham. 



The Council of the Eoyal Irish Academy has awarded you 

 this Cunningham Medal for your contributions to the advance- 

 ment of knowledge in Astronomy. In this vast field, the depart- 

 ment your labours have illustrated is that of the Coloured Stars. 

 Besides the multitude of stars which on a clear night garnish the 

 heavens with innumerable points of white light, the eye of the trained 

 student distinguishes about seven hundred, some few of which shine 



-a.I.A. MINUTES, SESSION 1883-4. L^^J 



