Minutes of Proceedings. 319 



Monday, Mat 8, 1899. 



LoED "Waltee PitzGeeald, and subsequently De. Beis^jamin 

 "W TT.T.TA ivrsn-N-, E.E.S., S.E.T.C.D., "Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Josias Gilbart Smyly, m.a., f.t.c.d., and Mr. Hugk Allingham 

 signed the Eoll, and were admitted Members of the Academy. 



Eead the following letter : — 



*'2, ROXBOEOTJGH-TEEEACE, RoSTEEVOE, 



''May btl, 1899. 



" Mrs. Frazer and the family wish to return their most sincere 

 and grateful thanks to the Members of the Eoyal Irish Academy for 

 the kind sympathy they have showed in their great and sad loss. 



" Dr. Frazer always took the keenest interest in all Science and 

 Art, and highly valued the many friends he had amongst the Members 

 of the Academy." 



A ballot was opened for the election of one Member of Council to 

 fill the vacant place on the Committee of Polite Literature and Anti- 

 quities. Mr. Moore and Mr. Gore were appointed scrutineers. 



Prof. T. Johnson, n.sc, read a Paper prepared by himself and 

 Mr. H. Hanna, jr. a., b.sc. — " The Irish Pheeophyceae." (Fauna and 

 Flora Committee Eeport.) 



Mr. A. E. IS'ichols, b.a., read a further part of the Fauna and 

 Flora Committee Eeport, entitled " A List of the Marine Mollusca of 

 Ireland." 



Prof. C. J. Joly, M.A., E.T.c.D., Eoyal Astronomer of Ireland, read — 

 *' A Note on Astatics." 



Mr. J. G. Smyly, m.a., f.t.c.d., read a Paper — " Certain Curves 

 connected with the double Normals of plane bicircular Quartics and 

 Cyclides." 



The scrutineers having reported the result of the ballot, Mi'. Eobert 

 Cochrane, f.s.a., was declared to be elected to the vacant seat on the 

 Council. , . . 



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