414 Royal Irish Academy. 



£15 to Prof. Cole and Mr. J. A. Cunningham, in aid of Researches 



on the Igneous Dykes and Metamorphic Rocks of I^.W. Ireland. 



The entire text of the Book of Armagh is now in type, reproduced 

 page for page from the MS. The number of pages is 440, occupying 

 55 quarto sheets. Of these sheets 49 (containing the whole I^Tew 

 Testament, and the Life, &c., of St. Martin) are finally printed off : 

 sis only (containing the documents relating to St. Patrick) are still 

 under revision. The Editor is engaged in preparing the Introduction 

 and Appendices, in which he will include as much as is available of the 

 matter (some of it still in manuscript) left by the late Bishop Beeves. 



On the 27th of March of last year a joint meeting of the Boyal 

 Irish Academy and the Boyal Dublin Society was held, under the 

 presidency of Lord Bosse, to receive a preliminary report of the obser- 

 vations made by the members of the Solar Eclipse Expedition organised 

 by the two Societies. The full details will be ^published in due time 

 by both Societies. 



The slips of the Irish Dictionary have made substantial progress 

 under the dii-ection of the Editor, the collection of those from the 

 Eacsimiles being now almost complete. 



At the Stated Meeting on the 16th March, 1901, the foUowing 

 Members were elected : — 



Matthew Wyatt Joseph Fry, m.a., f.t.c.d.. 



Bight Hon. Dodgson Hamilton Madden, p.c, ll.d., 



Edmond Joseph Mc"Weeney, m.a., m.d., 



Bobert Patterson, f.z.s., 



Bev. "William Balph "Westropp Roberts, m.a., b.d., f.t.c.d. ; 



and the following were elected Honorary Members in the Section of 



Science : — 



Eelis Klein, 



Hermann Karl Yogel. 

 The Academy has lost by death within the year seven members : — 

 Hamilton Bell, elected May 12, 1884. 

 Bt. Hon. Col. Edward Heniy Cooper, h.m.l., elected April 9, 



1866. 

 Thomas Dunbar Ingram, ll.d., elected April 14, 1879. 



