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Monday Evening, June 25, 1877. 

 Sna RoBEKT Kane, LL.D., F. E. S., President, in the Chair. 



Dr. Eobert S. Ball, P. E,. S., Astromoner Ptoyal for Ireland, was 

 elected Secretary of the Academy, in place of Dr. E. Perceval 

 Wright, F.L.S., resigned. 



Mr. W. H. Baily, read a Paper " On Eossils of the Irish Coal 

 District (Eeport)." 



By permission of the Academy, Mr. "William Plunkett, P. C. S., 

 read a Eeport by himseK and Lanncelot Studdert, LL.D., " On 

 the Solid and Gaseous Constituents of the Spa, at Mallow, Co. Cork." 



[This Paper will appear in the "Proceedings," Vol. III., Second 

 Series, Part 1, Science.] 



By permission of the Academy, Mr. C, C. Hutchinson read a Paper 

 by himself and Mr. A. H. M'Alpine, " On the Gaseous Constituents of 

 the Vartry and Eoyal Canal waters." 



[This Paper will appear in the " Proceedings," Vol. III., Second 

 Series, Part 1, Science.] 



By permission of the Academy, Professor Galloway read a Paper 

 by Messrs. Eeginald Laurence, and C. "W". Eeilly, " On the Albuminoid 

 Matters, Alcohol and Phosphates, in the Burton Ales and Dublin 

 Porter." 



By permission of the Academy, Mr. Thomas Bayley read a Paper 

 *' On the Yolumetric Estimation of Chromium." 



[This Paper will appear in the "Proceedings," Vol. III., Second 

 Series, Part 1, Science.] 



By permission of the Academy, Mr. Thomas Bayley read a Paper 

 " On the Peroxides of Cobalt and Mckel." 



By permission of the Academy, a Paper by Mr. Henry Hatfield 

 was read " On a Method for the detection of Cadmium in the presence 

 of Copper." 



The Treasurer laid on the Table the following Abstract of the 

 Academy's Accounts for the year ending 31st of March, 1877, as 

 Audited by the Eev. Samuel Haughton, M. D., and "William 

 Archer, E.E. S., Committee of Audit. 



The Academy then adjourned until !N"ovember. 



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