282 Royal Irish Academy. 



Donations were announced, and thanks were voted to tlie respec- 

 tive Donors. 



The Secretary read a letter from the President of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, requesting that the 

 Academy would name a representative to be present at their approach- 

 ing meeting. 



It was resolved : — 



"That Dr. Eohert Ball, Astronomer Eoyal for Ireland, be re- 

 quested to act as the representative of the Eoyal Irish Academy at 

 the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, to be held in Philadelphia on 3rd (and following days) of 

 September, and that the above nomination be notified to the Associa- 

 tion under the seal of the Academy. 



TJie Proceedings, vol. iv. (Second Series) No. 2, Science, for July, 

 1884, was laid on the table. 



Monday Evening, IN'ovembee, 10, 1884. 



Sir Samuel Peeguson, q.c., ll.d., President, in the Chair. 



Sir Eohert Kane, e.e.s., took the Chair while the President read a 

 Paper on the Coroticus Epistle. 



Donations to the Library and Museum were announced, and thanks 

 were voted to the respective Donors. 



The following scientific grants recommended by the Council were 

 confirmed by the Academy : — 



£15 to Dr. Haughton, in supplement of a grant of £35, to defray 

 the expenses of Calculation of Sun-heat Coefficients and Eadiation. 



£25 to Mr. Adeney, for a Chemical and Spectroscopical Investi- 

 gation of the rarer elements in some of the Crystalline Eocks of 

 Donegal. 



£30 to Mr. Haddon, for Eesearches on the Morphology of the 

 Mollusca. 



£15 to Mr. Hart, for Investigating the Flora of Southern Donegal. 



£15 to Mr. Stewart, for Investigating the Flora of the Southern 

 portion of the County Clare and the Shannon Estuary. 



