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^leet me an Honorary !Mcmber in the Department of Science. I will 

 thank you to convey to the Academy this expression of my great 

 gratification in receiving so flattering a recognition from the represen- 

 tative Institution of Irish Science. 



" I am, dear Sir, 



" Your obedient Servant, 



" E. Feakkland. 

 "Dr. Ed. Peeceval Weight, 

 " Secretary to the Royal Irish Academy P 



" Athexs, 

 "13th April, 1886. 



" SlJR, 



" I am in receipt of your favour of 6th inst., from "whicli 

 I see "with, profound gratitude that the Royal Irish Academy has 

 elected me an Honorary llemher in the Department of Polite Litera- 

 ture and Antiquities. 



" I beg to assure you, that I shall endeavour to the utmost of my 

 abilities to show myself worthy of the Diploma of Membership, which 

 will be th.e greatest omament of my house. 



"Believe me, Sir, 



" Tour obedient Servant, 



"Ht. SCHLIEIIANN. 



"Ed. Peeceval "Weight, ir.D., 

 " Secretary of the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin.''^ 



llr. Thomas jS". Deane, e.h.a., read a Eeport " On the Excavations 

 of Dowth." 



By the permission of the Academy, the Eev. Professor Gwynn, 

 D.D., read a Paper "On a Syriac MS. of Archbishop Ussher's Col- 

 lection." 



Mr. V. Ball, f.e.s., read a Paper "On some Scientific Eesults 

 derivable from Thirty Years' Experience of Lion-breeding in the 

 Gardens of the Eoyal Zoological Society ol Ireland." 



Donations to the Library were announced and thanks were voted 

 to the Donors. 



