Minutes of Proceedings 423 



Professor J. P. O'Reilly, o.e., read a Paper on " The origin of 

 certain Ancient Irish Water Mills." 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 Donors. 



Read the following letters : — 



" 3, Ctjmbeeland-eoad, Kew, 

 " Jfarc^20, 1902. 



" Deah Dr. Jolt, 



" I have this morning received both your kind letter and my 

 certificate of Membership of the Royal Irish Academy. I feel very 

 grateful to the Council and Members of the Academy for the honour 

 they have conferred upon me. 



' ' Yours very truly, 



"J. G. Bakee." 



" CuATEAr DE St. Geemain-en-Laye, 



" March 20, 1902. 



"Deae Sir, 



" I am under deep obligation to the Royal Irish Academy for 

 the honour bestowed upon me by that learned body in the meeting of 

 March 15th. 



" Some of your colleagues are aware of the great interest which I 

 feel for Irish antiquities and of the hope which I still entertain that 

 an Irish Exploration Pund may some day be started and appeal to 

 international liberality in view of systematic excavations. 



" Please forward my most sincere thanks to the President of the 

 Academy, and believe me, 



«' Dear Sir, 



" Faithfully yours, 



" Salomon Reinach. 



'■'■Member of the trench Academy of Inscriptions and Polite 

 Literature, Keeper of the National Musewm." 

 k.i.a. minutes, session 1900-1901. [38] 



