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Mo>-DAT Eyexix&, JrxE 11, 1877. 

 Sra EoBEET Kai^^e, LL.D., F.E. S., President, in the Chair. 



Eev. J. P. Mahaffy, M. A., P.T.C.D., read a Paper " On recent 

 Excavations in Greece." 



Professor A. Leith Adams read the first part of a jLionograph " On 

 Irish jFossil Mammals." 



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

 Yol. III., Science, Part 1.] 



Eead the following letter from E. Perceval "Wright, M.D., to the 

 President, resigning the office of Secretary to the Academy. 



" TunaTX College, DuBLiif, 

 " May 25, 1877. 

 '' Deae He. Peesldext, 



" I have with regret come to the fixed conclusion that it is- 

 expedient that I should resign the office of Secretary to the Academy. 



" The Editing of the Academy's Scientific Puhlications demands 

 too great a sacrifice of my time, already too much occupied, and 

 prevents me from devoting as much of it as I could wish to original 

 research, and this might well serve as my excuse; but I confess that, in 

 addition, I am not satisfied with the existing state of afiaii's in our body, 

 and I believe that the nominal conduct thereof Avould, at the present 

 crisis, be better in other hands. 



"My election to the office I now resign I shall always regard as 

 the highest reward the Members of the Academy could have given ta 

 my Scientific work, and for that reward I thank them. I have also to 

 thank you Mr. President, for your unvarying courtesy, and to subscribe 



myself, 



"Most faithfully yours, 



" Edwaed Peecevax "Weight."' 



" SiE E. KAifE, LL.D., E. E. S. 



Fresident, Royal Irish Academy.'''' 



It was unanimously Eesolvcd — 



" That the Academy receives with regret the resignation of 

 Dr. "Wright, and desires to place on record its sense of the valuable 

 services rendered by him during his tenure of office, especially on the 

 prompt publication in the Transactions and Proceedings of the Papers 

 read before the Academy." 



