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dered necessary by tlie unsettled state of the relations between tbe 

 Government and tbe Academy. A detailed account of these has 

 already been laid before the Members, and they are therefore not 

 dealt with in the present Report. Prom the resolution of the Aca- 

 demy not to acquiesce in the transfer of the charge of its vote from 

 the Irish Government to the Science and Art Department, it resulted 

 that a large portion of the Parliamentary Yote did not reach us in 

 time to be applied to the objects to which it would, in the ordinary 

 course, have been devoted. "We were thus obliged to defer proceed- 

 ing with the printing of the " Annals of Ulster," though the publica- 

 tion of that work had been undertaken by us at the instance of the late 

 Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. To the same cause it is due that we were not 

 able until near the end of the past year to distribute the fund annually 

 placed at our disposal by Parliament for aiding Scientific Research 

 by providing suitable instruments and materials. While constrained 

 to exercise a cautious reserve with respect to these items of our expendi- 

 ture, we endeavoured, as far as possible, to prevent what we regard 

 as the most important part of the Academy's work — namely, the 

 printing of Papers read before us — from being seriously obstructed by 

 the temporary failure of our supplies. Now that a satisfactory solu- 

 tion has been arrived at of the questions so long at issue between the 

 Academy and the Government, the Papers read since November last 

 will speedily be published, and it may be confidently expected that 

 every branch of our operations will proceed with renewed energy and 

 efficiency. 



The grants in aid of the preparation of Scientific. Reports, recom- 

 mended by the Committee of Science, approved by the Council, and 

 now submitted for the sanction of the Academy, are as follows : — 



£50 to Rev. Professor Haughton, M. D., for Reports on the Tidal 

 Constants of the Irish Coast ; being the second instalment of the sum 

 of £100 required for the expenses of calculations. 



£10 to Dr. C. Bell for further Experiments on Pyrrol. 



£50 to Dr. R. S. Ball towards the expenses to be incurred in the 

 reduction of the recorded Observations of Jupiter's Satellites, pre- 

 paratory to a re-discussion of their Theory. 



£25 to Dr. Reynolds and Rev. Professor Haughton, M. D., for 

 Experiments on the Dynamical Coefficients of Priction, at low 

 velocities, between fluids and solids. 



