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G. H. Kinahan; Dr. Doberck ; Professor J. Emerson Eeynolds; Dt-. 

 David Moore; Mr. E. T. Hardman; Professor E. Perceval Wright ; 

 Mr. A. G. More ; Professor Edmund Davy ; Eev. J. H. Jellett ; 

 Mr. Harry jS". Draper and Mr. Moss ; Mr. George Porte ; Professor 

 J. E. Young ; Dr. Moss ; Mr. John Birmingham ; Dr. Samuel Fergu- 

 son; Mr. A. M'Alpine; Professor M'Nab; Mr. J. Blackwall and 

 Eev. 0. P. Cambridge ; Mr. F. Ogilby Eoss ; Dr. Chichester Bell ; 

 Mr. H. B. Brady ; Mr. C. E. Burton ; Professor Henry Hennessy; 

 Mr. J. E. L. Dreyer, and Dr. Angus Smith. 



In the department of Polite Literature and Antiquities : — ^by Mr. 

 W. E. "Wakeman ; Dr. Samuel Ferguson ; and Eev. D. H. Haigh. 



Miss Stokes, Honorary Member of the Academy, exhibited at one 

 of our Meetings a splendid series of photographs, illustrative of Early 

 Irish Architecture, and accompanied the exhibition with a communi- 

 cation containing a description of the structures thus represented, and 

 also a general view of the History of our Architecture down to the 

 Anglo-Norman invasion. 



The Librarian has found it necessary to undertake an entire re- 

 arrangement of the Library. All books 'relating to Ireland have 

 been brought together into the recesses of the gallery facing the 

 entrance. Books on archoBological matters (in the widest sense) are 

 being gradually transferred to the Eeading-room, in which, when all 

 are collected, it is intended to arrange them on a system of classifica- 

 tion which will enable readers to discover at once the literature of 

 each subject and of its particular branches, so far as it is contained in 

 the Library. The foreign reviews and other periodicals have been 

 collected from all parts of the Library, and placed in the recesses on 

 the north side of the room, where they are arranged according to the 

 countries in which they are published. 



In the department of manuscripts, we have to report, with respect 

 to the Edition of the Book of Leinster, which we have undertaken 

 with the assistance of the Board of Trinity College, that the transcrip- 

 tion has been continued as far as page 300, and that 280 pages have 

 been already printed off. It is expected that the whole of the work 

 •will be completed in the summer of 1879. 



Dr. Atkinson, by appointment of the Academy, appeared as its 

 Delegate at the International Congress of Orientalists, which met at 

 St. Petersburg in September, 1876. 



