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£25 to Rev. H. J. Lawlor, d.d., to enable Hm to obtain Photo- 

 graphs of Selected Pages of Manuscripts of St. Columbanus in various 

 Continental Libraries. 



Considerable further progress has been made during the past year 

 in the preparation of slips for the Irish Dictionary, under the direc- 

 tion of the Editor. 



The Todd Lectures for 1899-1900, both text and translation, are 

 in the press, and will be ready for publication shortly, and they will, 

 it is hoped, be followed at no distant date by the volume containing 

 the Course of Lectures for the Session 1900-1, the last of which will 

 be delivered this day. 



The Council are glad to be able to report that the fourth volume of 

 the Annals of Ulster, containing the Introduction and Index, and 

 completing the entire work, is now finished, and will be ready for 

 publication within the next few days. 



Eev. Dr. Gwynn, editor of the Book of Armagh, reports as 

 follows : — 



The printing of the Book of Armagh is far advanced towards 

 completion. The whole of the 'New Testament, being the largest and 

 most important part of it, is now in type, and the sheets are herewith 

 laid before the Academy. The manuscript has been represented as 

 intended by Bishop Reeves, " not only paginatim but Uneatim" ; so 

 that the printed book will be, for all practical purposes, a facsimile 

 of it. The initial letters and other ornamental devices, some of them 

 of great beauty, have been reproduced by a photographic process, with 

 considerable success. The printing of the remaining sheets, which 

 will contain the Patrician documents and the Life of St. Martin, will, 

 it is hoped, be speedily finished. An Introduction, including the 

 admirable account of the MS. left by Dr, Reeves, and an Appendix of 

 readings of the Gospel text from the Books of Dimna and Mulling 

 will complete the work. 



The Annual Yisitation of the Academy's Museum took place on the 

 13th February, 1901. The Committee appointed for that purpose report 

 that, in their opinion, the North-west Pavilion is insufficiently lighted, 

 and they hope that arrangements may be made by which light during 



