290 Royal Irish Academy. 



MoifDiY EvENES'G, Maech 16, 1885. 

 (Stated Meeting.) 



SiE Samitel FEEGrsoj^', Q.C., LL.D., President, in the Chair. 



The Ballot for President and Council was declared open. 



The President appointed Messrs. George Porte and "William Archer 

 as Scrutineers of the Ballot. 



The Secretary of Council read the f ollovring Eeport : — 



Eepoet of the CorNCiL FOE THE Teae 1884-85. 



Since the date of the last Eeport of the Council the folloTving parts 

 of the Transactions have been published : — 



Yol. xxviii. — Science. 



Part 15. " Expansion of Elliptic Eunctions." ByW. Nicolls, b.a. 



Part 16. " On a G-eometrical Transformation of the Eourth Order, 

 in Space of Three Dimensions, the Inverse Transformation being of 

 the Sixth Order." By L. Cremona, ll.d., f.e.s.. Professor of Higher 

 Mathematics in the University of Eome. 



Part 17. " Catalogue of the Earthquakes having occurred in Great 

 Britain and Ireland during Historical Times, arranged relatively to 

 Localities and Frequency of Occurrence, to sefve as a Basis for an 

 Earthquake Map of the Three Eingdoms." (Plate xi.). By J. P. 

 O'Eeilly, c.e. 



Part 18. — "Eeport on some Eecent Eoraminifera found off the coast 

 of Dublin and in the Irish Sea " (Plates xii., xiii., and xiv.), by 

 E. P. Balkwill and Joseph "Wright, f.g.s., is laid on the table this 

 evening. 



Of the Proceedings, part 2 of vol. iv. (Second Series) was published 

 in July, 1884, and part 3 of vol.iv. inEebruary, 1885, both containing 

 Papers on Science ; and part 6 of vol. ii. (Second Series), containing 

 Papers on Polite Literature and Antiquities, was published inEebruary, 

 1885. 



