342 Royal Irish Academy. 



The following Grants in aid of the Preparation of Scientific Reports 

 have been sanctioned by the Academy : — 



£15 to Mr. Henry C. Hart, towards the continuance of the 

 Botanical Exploration of Southern and Central Donegal. 



£40 to a Committee, consisting of Professor Haddon, Hev. W. S. 

 Green, Joseph Wright, and Dr. E, P. Wright, for a further Report on 

 the Dredging in Deep "Water off the South-west Coast of Ireland. 



£40 to Professor G. E. Eitz Gerald, p. r. s., to aid in making 

 Magnetic Observations at Yalentia. 



£15 to Professor O'Reilly, c.e., to aid in a Chemical Study of 

 certain Rock Eormations about Dublin, 



£40 to Rev. Dr. Haughton, r.K.s., and Professor G. E. Eitz Gerald, 

 F.E.S., to aid in ascertaining the Amounts of Evaporation of Water and 

 other Liquids, when the same Total Amount of Heat is applied in 

 different times. 



£25 to Professor W. J. Sollas, ll. d., to aid in the Study of the 

 Structures and Relations of the Igneous Rocks of tlie Carlingford and 

 Mourne Mountain Districts. 



£25 to Mr. Y. Ball, p. E.g., to prepare a Report on the Mineral and 

 Vegetable Substances used as Drugs in India, in the middle of the six- 

 teenth century. 



The additions last year to the collections in the Museum have been 

 numerons : they comprise antique penannular ornaments of gold, from 

 the Co. Donegal; bronze trumpets, in fine preservation, found in 

 1875 on the townland of Clogher, near Tralee ; a unique ecclesiasti- 

 cal bell of iron, coated with bronze, recently discovered in an ancient 

 bee-hive cell, on Senach's Island, Magherees, Co. Kerry ; a horn goblet 

 and other objects, from Aghaloughan Crannog ; fragments of ancient 

 Irish woollen garments, found in 1870 on a human body, in a bog 

 in the Co. Donegal ; a tripod pot-quern of sandstone, weapons and 

 tools of bronze, glass and amber beads, and a large number of flints and 

 stone implements, collected some years ago, chiefly in the counties 

 Antrim and Down. 



The Booh of Ballymote is now ready, and will be laid on the table 

 this afternoon. The question of the ms. to be next reproduced, in 

 continuation of the series, is now under consideration. 



The Annals of Ulster, vol. i., is nearly completed, and it was 

 expected that it would be laid on the table to-day, but, owing to 



