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Dr. Frederick T. Trouton, f.e.s., read a Paper on " Latent Heat of 

 Evaporation of Saline Solutions." 



A vote of thanks was passed to Mr. G. W. Miller for Drawings of 

 Plans of Portumna Castle and of Kilkea Castle, presented by him to 

 the Library. 



Monday, Decembek 11, 1899. 



Mk. John Ribton Gaestin, d.l., f.s.a., Vice-President, and sub- 

 sequently De. Benjamin Williamson, f.e.s., s.f.t.c.i)., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



Rev. Hugh Jackson Lawlor, d.d., was elected a Member of the 

 Academy. 



By permission of the Academy, Dr. Henry H. Dixon read a Paper 

 on " The first Mitosis of the Spore-mother-cells of Lilium." 



Prof. Charles J. Joly, m.a., e.t.c.d., Royal Astronomer of Ireland, 

 read a Paper on " Applications of Hamilton's Operator v iii the 

 Calculus of Variations." 



Mr. George H. Kinahan, c.e., read a Paper on "The Beaufort Dyke 

 or Gulch of Shifting Sand off the Coast of the Mull of Galloway." 



Monday. Januaey 22, 1900. 



De. "W. J. O'Donnavan, and subsequently De. B. "Williamson, 

 F.E.S., Vice-President, and subsequently Most Rev. De. Donnelly, 

 Bishop of Canea, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Rev. Hugh Jackson Lawlor, d.d., signed the Roll, and was 

 admitted a Member of the Academy. 



By permission of the Academy Rev. "W. R. "Westropp Roberts, m.a., 

 r.T.c.D., read a Paper " On the Reduction of the Integral — 



— ^-^—- to a number of other Integrals of the form 



where <^(::) and i/^(s) are rational and integral functions of {%) and/(z), 

 a polynomial of the degree 2m." 



Prof. J. P. O'Reilly, c.e., read a Paper on " The Epidiorites and 

 Mica-schists of Killiney Park, Co. Dublin." 



