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Astronomical Association were unable to charter a steamer. The 

 failure in both cases is attributed to the war in South Africa. 



Under these circumstances the Committee gladly accepted an offer 

 courteously made by Senor Don Iniguez y Iniguez, the Director of 

 the Madrid Observatory, that the Irish observers should occupy a 

 station at the Plasencia, in the interior of Spain, in proximity to that 

 occupied by the Spanish Government Astronomers. A preliminary 

 account of the observations, which are considered to be very satisfac- 

 tory, will be communicated to the Societies at an early date. 



The following Members have been elected since the 16th March, 



1900:— 



Ambrose Birmingham, m.d. 



Pelix Carbray, m.p.p. 



Eev. Ambrose Coleman, o.p. 



Sir Thomas Henry Grattan Esmonde, Bart., m.p. 



Captain Joshua Fielding. 



Rev. Henry Francis John Martin, m.a. 



Prof. Stanley Lane Poole, m.a. 



Thomas William Rolleston, m.a. 



Eev. William Morgan Tate-Stoate, m.a. 



The Academy has lost by death within the year six Members : — 

 Rev. Edmond Barry, p.p., elected 28th June, 1866. 

 G. F. FitzGerald, d.sc, p.t.c.d., f.e.s., elected 11th Feb., 1878. 

 Henry Hennessy, f.e.s., elected 13th January, 1851. 

 Edmond Johnson, elected 11th January, 1897. 

 Rev. Thomas Olden, m.a., elected 14th February, 1876. 

 F. J. B. Quinlan, m.d., elected 11th April, 1881. 



The Academy has also lost by death one Honorary Member in the 

 Section of Science : — 



Charles Hermite, elected 15th March, 1884. 

 And three Honorary Members in' the Section of Polite Literature 

 and Antiquities : — 



Right Hon. Max Muller, elected 16th March, 1863. 

 Lieut.-General Augustus H. L. F. Pitt-Rivers, elected 16th 



March, 1895. 

 Margaret Stokes, elected 16th March, 1876. 



