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Other donations were announced, and tlie thanks of the Academ}- 

 Toted to the Donors. 



The Secretary of the Council proposed, and the Secretary of the 

 Academy seconded, and it was resolved : — 



" That the Council he requested to prepare, and lay hefore the 

 Academy at its next meeting, an Address to His Majesty King 

 Edward, expressing the Eoyal Irish Academy's condolence with him 

 on the death of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, and offering the 

 Academy's congratulations to His Majesty on his accession to the 

 Throne; and also expressing the hope that His Majesty wiU be 

 pleased to assume the office of Patron of the Academy, which office 

 has been held by His Royal Predecessors in succession from the 

 founder King George III." 



The Secretary reported that the University of Glasgow had sent 

 the following invitation to the Academy to send Delegates to the 

 Celebration of the Ninth Jubilee of the University: — 



CANCELLARIUS, 



CimiA, Senaius Univeesitatis Glasguensis Academiae Regiab 



HiBEENICAE. 



S.D.P. 



■SoELENNE est sapientiae antistitibus signa contigerit laetitiae f eriarum- 

 ■ que occasio eam in medium deferre ut litteratorum Eeipublicae 

 concives piis gaudiis intersint universi. Communis enim inter studia 

 communia foventes necessitudo. Atque hoc praesertim aevo cum tot 

 stimulatium discordiarumque causae inter gentes intercedant, quam 

 plurimi facimus fastorum opportunitatem per quam licet patria diver- 

 sos litterarum commerciis inter se conjunctos ad doctum hospitium 

 sodalitiumque convocare. 



Sacra autem paramus saecularia cum haec nostra Glasguensis 

 Academia natalem quadringentesimum quinquagesimum celebrare 

 velit. Justum igitur saeculorum orbis rettulit tempus patribus condi- 

 toribusque nostris pio animo grataque memoria parentandi, Minervam 

 simul per tantum aevi spatium feliciter navatam commemorandi. 

 Ecquis enim divini scriptoris immemor ? Laudemus viros gloriosos et 



