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The Ballot was opened for Honorary Members, the Treasurer and 

 •Secretary being appointed Scrutineers. 



The Secretary of Council read the following Report : — 



Repokt of the Council foe the Year 1885-86. 



.Since the date of the last Report of the Council the following parts 

 of the Transactions have been published : — 



Vol. xxviii. — Science. 



Part 19. — '^ On the Botany of Sinai and South Palestine" (Plates 

 XV., xvi., xvii.). By H. C. Hart, b.a. 



Part 20.— '' On Three Circles related to a Triangle." By W. S. 

 M'Cay, M.A., F.T.c.D. 



Part 21. — •' On the Mtro-prussides of the more important Bases of 

 Opium." By Edmund W. Davy, m.a., m.d. 



And the following will be laid on the table this evening : — 



Part 22. — "Alphabetical Catalogue of the Earthquakes recorded as 

 having occurred in Europe and adjacent Countries, arranged to serve as 

 .a basis for an Earthquake Map of Europe." By Joseph P. O'Reilly, 

 C.E., Professor of Mining and Mineralogy, Royal College of Science, 

 Dublin. 



Vol. xxvii. — Polite Literature and Antiquities. 



Part 6. — " On the Patrician Documents." By Sir Samuel Eer- 



gUSOn, LL.D. 



Of the Proceedings, part 4 of vol. iv. (Second Series) was published 

 in July, 1885, containing Papers on Science; and part 7 of vol. ii. 

 (Second Series), containing Papers on Polite Literature and Antiquities, 

 was published in January, 1886. 



The contributors in the Department of Science are : — Mr. J. P. 

 O'Reilly; Dr. E. W. Davy; Mr. R. M. Barrington ; Mr. R. P. 

 Vowell; Mr. W. H. Baily; Sir Robert S. Ball; Mr. W. S. M'Cay; 

 Mr. W. J. Knowles ; Mr. A. C. Haddon ; Rev. Dr. Haughton ; Mr. 

 J. E. Gore; Mr. R. A. Roberts; Dr. D. J. Cunningham; Dr. John 

 Casey; Mr. J. C. Malet ; Mr. Joseph Wright; Mr. A. Jacob; Mr, 

 J. Mahony ; Mr. H. Hennessy ; Mr. H. C. Hart. 



