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Scrutineers having reported, the President declared the following duly 

 elected : — 



Teeastjeee. — John Eibton Garstin, LL.B. 



Secketaet of the Academy. — E. Perceval Wright, M. D. 



Seceetaey of the Coupon,. — J. Kells Ingram, LL.D. 



Seceetaet of Poreigit CoEEESPOisTDEXCE. — William Archer, P. E. S. 



LrBEAEiAif. — Eobert Atkinson, LL.D. 



Cieee; of the Academy. — Edward Clibborn, Esq. 



The President, under his hand and seal, nominated the following as 

 Yice-Presidents for the year 1877-78 : — 



Kev. J. H. Jellett, B. D ; Samuel Perguson, LL.D. ; Thomas 

 Hayden, M. D ; Alexander Eichey, LL.D. 



The Academy then adjourned. 



lIoj^DAY EvenijS'g, Apeil 9, 1877. 



SiE EoBEET Xaxe, LL.D., P. E. S., President, in the Chair. 



Eev. George Eeade, M. A., P. A. Tarleton, LL.D., P.T.C.D., and 

 Benjamin "Williamson, A. M., P. T. C. D., were elected Members of 

 the Academy. 



Eobert S. Ball. LL.D., Astronomer Eoyal of Ireland, read a 

 letter from Professor Tait, "On the subject of Lagrange's Equations 

 of Motion in Generalized Co-ordinates." 



[This paper will appear in the " Proceedings," Second Series, Vol. 

 III., Science, Part 1.] 



Eobert S. Ball, LL.D., read " Observations on Comet I (1877) made 

 at Dunsink." 



[This paper wiU be pubHshed as Part 14 of Vol. XXVI. of the 

 " Transactions."] 



Denis Crofton, Esq., read a Paper " On the Brick with Babylonian 

 Characters in the Museum of Trinity College, Dublin." 



Professor O'Eeilly exhibited a coloured drawing of a Meteorite 

 seen by him near Dublin, on the evening of the 6th April, 1877, 

 about 9 o'clock. 



