Minutes of Proceedings. 303 



Monday Qth Noyembee, 1885. 



Sib Samuel FEUGrsois-, q.c, ll.d., President, in the Chair, 



The Secretary announced that the Address voted by the Academy 

 on the 10th July was presented to His Excellency the Lord Lieu- 

 tenant on the 15th July, and that the following gracious reply had 

 been given to it : — 



" GrENTLEMEN", 



" I receive with great satisfaction the assurance of your devo- 

 tion to the person and to the throne of the Sovereign. I thank you 

 also very cordially for your own good wishes and welcome to myself. 

 Such bodies as you. Gentlemen, represent, are most valuable to the 

 community to which they belong. They both strengthen it and adorn 

 it. They are in fact .like — if I may so ^say — to the shaft and capital 

 of the column ; and I am not ignorant at all oE what you have done. 

 You have attained, as you remind me in your Address, a great and 

 venerable age, and I trust that you may still have in the full maturity 

 of your powers a long and honoured, and useful existence before you. 

 I am well aware that many whom I have now the pleasure of address- 

 ing have left their mark upon the literature and archseology of Ireland. 

 I have been informed of the valuable and most interesting collection 

 of Irish Antiquities which you have accumulated, and I hope by your 

 favour, I may have the opportuity some day of making personal 

 acquaintance with them." 



The Most Eev. Dr. Donnelly, Bishop of Canea, signed the Eoll 

 and was admitted a Member of the Academy. 



Dr. R. S. Ball read a Paper " On the character of the Linear Trans- 

 formation which corresponds to the Displacement of a Eigid System 

 in Elliptic Space." 



Dr. "W. Frazer read Notes on three Celts presented to the Academy 

 by the Eev. Peter J. M'Philpin of Castlebar. 



The Eev. Dr. Haughton read a Paper ** On the Law of Terrestrial 

 Eadiation in terms of Temperature deduced from Thirty-five Years' 

 hourly Observations on Temperature at Greenwich Observatory." 



Donations were announced, and thanks voted to the Donors. 



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