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enriched with numerous MS. notes, and observations, and 

 what is particularly worthy of being noticed, an analysis of 

 its history." 



March 16, (Stated Meeting). 



SIR Wm.R. HAMILTON, LL.D. President, in the Chair. 



On the recommendation of Council, the following gentle- 

 men were elected Honorary Members of the Academy : 

 Professor Adrian, Giessen. 

 Jean B. Dumas, Paris. 

 A. Quetelet, Brussells. 

 J. O. Halliwell, Esq., Cambridge. 



The Secretary of Council read the following Report : 

 In conformity with the precedent lately established, the Coun- 

 cil, at the expiration of their year of office, beg to offer the Aca- 

 demy a general account of its history and progress during that 

 interval. 



The Council have to report, in the first place, that the publica- 

 tions of the Academy have proceeded with considerable vigour. 

 The first Part of Vol. XIX. of the Transactions has been lately 

 issued, and the second Part, for which many papers are in readiness, 

 is now beginning to be printed. The first Volume also of the 

 Proceedings, containing, along with other ordinary business, an 

 account of the communications made to the Academy during the 

 last four sessions, has just been published. As the quantity re- 

 maining on hands of xhe fourth Number of the Proceedings was 

 remarkably small, the Council, on the recommendation of the 

 Committee of Publication, have ordered 250 copies of that Num- 

 ber to be reprinted, by which means a large stock of complete 

 copies of the first Volume has been made up for the supply of 

 future demands, and for sale to Members and others at a fixed 

 price. 



