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ask, through you, to solicit the permission of the President for you to 

 read this letter, and present the drawings which accompany it to the 

 Eoyal Irish Academy, at its next meeting. 

 " I remain, 



''Dear Dr. Wright, 



' ' Very faithfully yours, 



" Samuel PEEGUsoiir. 

 ^'Ed. Peeceval Weight, M.D., 



"Secretary, Royal Irish Academy P 



A special vote of thanks was given to Dr. Perguson for his presen- 

 tation. 



The Secretary laid on the table Part 6 of Vol. XXVI. of the 

 " Transactions," being a Eeport on the Allotropism of Selenium, and 

 on the Influence of Light on the Electrical Conductivity of this Ele- 

 ment, by Harry N. Draper, and Eichard J. Moss. 



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

 Donors. 



^HTJESDAT Evening, I^ovembee 30, 1876. 



(St. Andrew's Day. — Stated Meeting.) 



Veet Eev. "Wm. Eeeves, D.D., Dean of Armagh, Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Eev. Canon Burke signed the Eoll, and was admitted a 

 Member. 



The Eight Hon. Lord Talbot de Malahide, E.E. S., was elected a 

 Member of Council in the Department of Polite Literature and Anti- 

 quities, to supply the place of the Eev. M. H. Close, M.A., resigned. 



A Paper, by the Eev. D. H. Haigh, " On Early British and Irish 

 Inscriptions," Part 2, was read. 



By permission of the Academy, Mr. P. Ogilby Eoss read a Paper, 

 " On the Myology of the Cheetah {Felu juhata).''^ 



[This Paper will appear in the ''Proceedings," Second Series, 

 Vol. in., Science, Part 1.] 



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