318 Royal Irish A cademy. 



" Memor enim quam longe lateque Tu Scientiae fines promoveris, 

 dum quibus legibus rotentur liquores liquido, riuibus rationibiis emit- 

 tantur radii lucis dilucide docueris, bsec Academia, ipsa pro sua parte 

 Scientiae cnltrix et fautrix, folium suum coronae illi viridissimae 

 lubenter addit quae boc die f esto Tibi per orbeni terrarum ut dignissimo 

 nectitur : votumque facit ut Tibi per multos annos superstiti ita in 

 tempore venture ut in deeem lustris tam boneste peractis omnia sint 

 bona, fausta, felicia. 



" Scribendo adfuerunt, 



"EossE, Praeses, 



" JoHAifNES H. Beenaed, ob actis. 



' D. DuBUNi, a.d. rii. Kal. lun. 



" MDCCCXCIX."] 



Monday, April 24, 1899. 



Me. John Eibton Gaestin, d.l., f.s.a., Yice-President, in the Chair. 



On the motion of Mr. T. F. Cooke-Trencb, d.l., seconded by Pro- 

 fessor J. P. O'Reilly, c.e., it was unanimously resolved : " That the 

 Royal Irish Academy desires to place on record its deep sense of the 

 loss it has sustained by the death of Dr. "William Prazer, Librarian of 

 the Academy, who had been for over thirty -three years a Member of 

 the Academy and for eighteen a Member of Council ; and a frequent 

 contributor of Papers to its meetings. The Academy tenders its 

 sincerest sympathy to Mrs. Prazer and the other members of his 

 family in their bereavement." 



Professor J. P. O'Reilly, c.e., read a Paper on " Volcanic Eruption 

 Dates and their Concordance with the Sun-Spot Period." 



Mr. Thomas J. "Westropp, m.a., read " IS'otes on some of the Lesser 

 Castles or 'Peel Towers' in County Clare." 



