382 Royal Insh Academy. 



Sympatliy on the occasion of the lamented death of Her late Majesty 

 Queen Victoria, and congratulation on His Majesty's Accession to the 

 Throne. 



" I have the honoiu- to be, My Lord, 



" Tout" Lordship's obedient Servant, 



" Chas. T. Ritchie. 



"The Hight How. the Eajrl of Eosse, k.p., &c., 

 "BiEE. Castle, Paesoxstowjt, 



" King's CouifTY, IEELA^'D." 



" Peivy Pitrse Office, 



" BircEiES'GHAir Palace, 

 ''UJi May, 1901. 



"SlE, 



" I have the honour to inform you that I have submitted to the 

 King your letter of 2nd inst., and in reply I am commanded to say that 

 His Majesty is pleased to accede to the request contained in it, to 

 grant his Patronage to the Eoyal Lrish Academy. 



"I am, Sii", 



" Tour obedient Servant, 



"D. M. Peobtw, General., 



" Keeper of H. M.'s Privy Purse. 

 " The Seceetaet, 



" The Royal Ieish Academy." 



An invitation to appoint a delegate to the International Congress 

 of Zoology to be held at Berlin in August, 1901, was accepted, and 

 Dr. Scharff was appointed the Academy's delegate on the occasion. 



Mr. Coffey moved, in accordance with notice handed in at the last 

 meeting of the Academy : — 



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

 position of the controversy respecting the Gold Antiquities lately found 

 in the !N'orth of Ireland, and the steps they have taken to secure the 

 return of these Antiquities to Ireland." 



Judge Kane seconded the motion. 



