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The nomination of the following as Yice-Presidents for the ensuing 

 year, under the hand and seal of the President, was then announced : — 



John K. Ingram, ll.d. 

 Eev. Samuel Haughton, f.r.s. 

 Sir Eobert S. Ball, f.e.s. 

 Joseph P. O'Pteilly, c.e. 



Monday, Apeil 12, 1886. 



Professor O'Eeilly, Yice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Henry Thomas O'Eeilly, e.e.c.s.i., and Mr. William Jame& 

 Browne, m.a., were elected Members of the Academy. 



The Secretary read the following letter from Lord Eayleigh : — 



"4, Caelto:n' Gaedexs, S.W., 



"April 9, 1886. 

 "Deae Sie, 



''I have received your letter informing me that the Eoyal Irish 

 Academy have done me the honour of electing me an Honorary Mem- 

 ber, Please convey to the proper quarter my sense of the great com- 

 pliment done me by this election. The position of Honorary Member 

 is one which I shall value highly. 



" Yours very truly, 



" Eayleigh.'' 



The Secretary read a Paper, by Mr. A. H. Anglin, ir.A., " On 

 some Theorems in Determinants." 



The Secretary read a Eeport, by Mr. "W. P. de Y. Kane, "On 

 the Macro-Lepidoptera of Eallarney and South of Ireland." 



Dr. Frazer exhibited, and read Notes, " On a Bronze Pot, found 

 many years since in a Bog near JN'avan," presented to the Museum by 

 the Marquis of Headfort. 



Donations were announced, and thanks were voted to the Donors. 



