Minutes of Proceedings. 341 



Report of the Couitcil foe the Yeae, 1886-87. 



Since the date of the last Eeport of the Council the following 

 parts of the Transactions have been published : — 



Vol. xxvii. — Polite Literature and Antiquities. 



Part 7. " On the Stowe Missal." By Rev. B. Mac Carthy, d.d. 

 Part 8. " On a Syriac MS. belonging to the Collection of Arch- 

 bishop Ussher." By Rev. John Gwynn, d.d. 



Vol. xxviii. — Science. 



Part 23. " Some Properties of Certain Plane Curves." By R. A. 

 Roberts, m.a. 



Part 24. " Observations on Lion Breeding in the Gardens of the 

 Royal Zoological Society of Ireland." By Y. Ball, m.a., f.e.s. 



Part 25. "Geometrical Theorems." By John C. Malet, m.a., 



F.R.S. 



With these volumes the present series of divided Transactions is 

 concluded, and vol, xxix. will contain the Papers in both Depart- 

 ments. 



Cunningham Memoirs. 



'Bo. II. "The Lumbar Curve in Man and the Apes, with an 

 Account of the Topographical Anatomy of the Chimpanzee, Orang- 

 utan, and Gibbon." By Daniel J. Cunningham, m.d. 



No. HI. "On Sun-heat, Terrestrial Radiation, &c." By Rev. 

 Samuel Haughton, m.d., f.e.s., President of the Academy. 



Of the Proceedings, Part 5 of vol. iv. (Second Series), containing 

 Papers on Science, was published in July, 1886. 



In the Department of Science the Contributors are : — Mr. A. H. 

 Anglin ; Mr. W. P. de Y. Kane ; Mr. Y. Ball ; Sir Robert Ball ; Mr. 

 A. R. Rambaut ; Mr. Taylor ; Mr. Roebuck ; Mr. Henry Hennessy ; 

 Mr. R. A. Roberts; Mr. J. P. O'Reilly; Rev. Dr. Haughton, President; 

 Mr. R, M. Barrington ; and Mr. R. P. Yowell. 



In the Department of Polite Literature and Antiquities : — Dr. "VY. 

 Prazer ; Mr. T. N. Deane ; Rev. Dr. Gwynn ; Miss Margaret Stokes ; 

 Rev. Denis Murphy ; Lieut.-Colonel W. G. Wood-Martin ; Mr. J. B. 

 Bury ; Mr. E. T. Hardman ; and Mr. AY. J. Simpson. 



