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niunber of names marked with, an asterisk must not exceed 

 eleven for the Committee of Science and ten for the Committee of 

 Polite Literatiu'e and Antiquities. 



{g) In the scrutiny of the ballot the scrutineers shall reckon 

 votes marked P for a member who is not elected President a& 

 votes for a place on the Committee on which he has already 

 served. 



In reply to a Member the President explained that under the 

 proposed By-Law 5 of Chapter iv. the two Senior Members of the 

 Committee of Science and also the two Senior Members of the Com- 

 mittee of Polite Literatui'e and Antiquities were to be removed each 

 year except in the case where any Member holding one of the offices 

 named at the end of the section should be one of the two Senior 

 Members of either of the Committees of Council, in which case the 

 rule as to retirement should apply to the Member or Members not 

 holding any of such offices who should be next in seniority. 



The By-Laws were then approved and confirmed, the existing 

 sections 7 and 8 to be henceforth numbered 8 and 9, respectively. 



The Secretary read, in accordance witb section 2, Chapter n., of the 

 By-Laws, in alphabetical order, the names of all Candidates for Mem- 

 bership proposed subsequently to the Stated Meeting in March, 1901. 



Monday, Febeuaex 24, 1902. 



Peop. Eobeet Atkinson, ll.d., litt.d., President, in the Chair. 



Professor Trouton, f.e.s., read for Professor "W. Eamsay, f.e.s., 

 HON. M.E.I.A., a Paper on — "The Surface Energy of Mixtures of certain 

 Liquids." 



Prof essor John Joly, f.e.s., read a Report on — " Solvent Denudation 

 in Fresh and Salt Water." 



Mr. Henry F. Berry, m.a., read— "Notes on an unpublished ]\[S. 

 Inquisition (a.d. 1258), relating to the Dublin City Watercourse, 

 among the Muniments of the Earl of Meath." 



K.I. A. MINUTES, SKSSIOX 1900-1901. ["'''] 



