292 Royal Irish Academy. 



The following Ordinary ^Members have been elected since the 16th 

 March, 1884:— 



1. George llounsey Atkinson. 



2. Hamilton Bell. 



3. John Joseph Cranny, m.d., p.e.c.s.i. 



4. Ear. Bartholomew llacCarthy, d.d. 



5. "William Eobert MoUoy. 



6. Eev. Denis Murphy, s.j. 



7. Joseph Casimir O'Meagher. 



8. Edward P. Eamsay, f.l.s. / 



9. Yery Eev. William J. Walsh, d.d. 



10. Lieutenant- Colonel William Gregory Wood-Martin, j.p. 



11. Louis Claude Purser, m.a., p.t.c.d. 



12. Lieutenant-General Sankey, c.b. 



13. James Colthurst, m.a., ll.d. 



We have lost by death within the year eight Members : — 



1. Eight Hon. the Earl of Arran, k.p., elected I^ovember 12th, 



1883. 



2. Thomas Brooke, d.l., elected April 12, 1858. 



3 Charles Copland, elected April 14, 1856. 



4. Eev. Abraham Hume, d.c.l., ll.d., elected June 14, 1875. 



5. Joseph Henry Lloyd, ll.d., elected January 10, 1876. 



6. Eight Hon. Mountifort Longfield, ll.d., elected Eebruary 



12, 1838. 



7. Eight Hon. Lord O'Hagan, k.p., elected June 8, 1857. 



8. Patrick James Smyth, elected January 13, 1873. 



Fifty pages of the " Book of Ballymote " have been photographed, 

 and seventy-two additional pages have been completed and printed off 

 duiing the present year. 



At the conclusion of Mr. Hennessy's term of office, the Council 

 elected Dr. Atkinson to the Todd Professorship ; and the first series 

 of his lectures will, it is expected, be delivered before the summer 

 vacation. 



The Council regret that further progress has not been made in the 

 publication of the " Annals of Ulster," the printing of which had only 

 just commenced in December last, when Mr. Hennessy's health gave 



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