324 Royal Irish Academy. 



Mr. Edward J. Gwynn, m.a., p.t.c.d., read his first Todd Memorial 

 Lecture. Subject : — " The Dindsenchas of Tara." 



A special vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Seaton F. Milligan, 

 ir.E.i.A., for his donation to the Academy's Museum of an ancient 

 gong or church bell. This object is a circular disc of a whitish 

 bronze, f of an inch thick, 3 feet 4 inches in diameter, and weighs 

 1 cwt. 2 qrs. and 4 lbs. It was used as a church bell in the old 

 church of AughnamuUen, near Ballybay, Co. Monaghan, until about 

 forty years ago, when its place was supplied by an ordinary bell. It 

 is stated to have been brought to the church about the time of the 

 siege of Derry by the Eev. Paul Dane who was rector of Augnamullen 

 at that time. When put on a stand and struck with a wooden mallet, 

 it gives a good clear sonorous sound. 



The following grant for Scientific Investigation recommended by 

 the Council was approved: — £150 to Prof. C. J. Joly, Eoyal 

 Astronomer of Ireland, for the purchase of a Coelostat and Long-focus 

 Telescope for Photographing the Corona during the Total Eclipse of 

 the Sun, of May, 1900. 



On the invitation of the Koniglich Preussische Akademie der 

 Wissenschaften, Berlin, that the E-oyal Irish Academy should take 

 part in their Bicentenary Festival on 19th and 20th March, 1900, 

 Dr. Atkinson, Secretary of Council, was appointed a delegate from the 

 Academy. 



Monday, Febeuaey 12, 1900. 



De. Benjamin Williamson, f.e.s., s.f.t.c.d., Vice-President, in the 



Chair. 



Mr. Henry Fitz Patrick Berry, m.a., and Mr. Michael Joseph 

 M'Enery, b.a., were elected Members of the Academy. 



Prof. C. J. Joly, M.A., F.T.C.D., Astronomer Boyal of Ireland, read a 

 Paper on " The place of the Ausdelmungslehre in the general Associa- 

 tive Algebra of the Quaternion type." 



Prof. Grenville A. J. Cole, f.g.s, read a "Report on Metamorphic 

 Rocks in eastern Tyrone and southern Donegal." 



