Minutes of Proceedings. 381 



A notice of motion handed in by Mr. Leonard on the same subject 

 Tvas ruled out of order by the President. 



Notices of motion by Mr. Co:ffey were handed in as follows : — 



"That the Council be requested to report to the Academy the 

 position of the controversy respecting the Gold Antiquities lately 

 found in the north of Ireland, and the steps they have taken to secure 

 the return of these Antiquities to Ireland," 



" That a revision of the By-Laws is desirable for the purpose of 

 simplifying the method and defining the conditions of the election of 

 President and Council." 



Monday, May 13, 1901. 



Pbop. Hobeet Atkinson, ll.d., litt.d., President, in the Chair. 



Sir Thomas H. Grattan Esmonde, Bart., m.p., and Rev. WiUiam 

 R. Westropp Roberts, b.d., f.t.c.d., signed the Roll, and were admitted 

 Members of the Academy. 



Mr. C. Litton Falkiner, m.a., read a Paper on — "The Phoenix 

 Park, its origin, formation and early history ; with some notices of 

 its Royal and Yiceregal residences." 



Rev. M. H. Close, m.a., read a Paper — "Hipparchus and the 

 Precession of the Equinoxes." 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted to 

 the Donors. 



Read the following letters : — 



"HomeOppioe, "Whitehall, 



' ' 3r(? April. 

 "My Loed, 



"I am commanded by the King to convey to your Lordship 

 hereby His Majesty's thanks for the Loyal and Dutiful Address of the 

 of the President and Members of the Royal Irish Academy expressing 



