PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. 



1842. No. 34. 



March 16. (Stated Meeting). 

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



On the recommendation of Council, Charles Wheatstone, 

 Esq., was elected an honorary member of the Academy. 



The Secretary of Council read the following Report, 

 which was ordered to be entered on the Minutes : 



" The affairs of the Academy during the past year will require but 

 a brief review, as the interval has not been very fertile in results. The 

 second part of the nineteenth volume of our Transactions has not yet 

 been published ; and the Essay on the Round Towers (which is to 

 make the twentieth volume) is still advancing slowly through the 

 press, its progress being necessarily retarded by the great number of 

 illustrations which are required from the nature of the work. 



" The subscription which was opened last year, under the manage- 

 ment of the Committee of Antiquities, for the purchase of the collec- 

 tion of the late Dean of St. Patrick's, has not hitherto answered the 

 expectations that were formed of it. Of the sum of one thousand 

 pounds, which the Dean's representatives agreed to accept for the 

 collection, little more than one-half has been raised. Notwithstand- 

 ing this circumstance, however, the Council are persuaded that public 

 feeling is in favour of the project, and that a little more energy, on 

 our part, is all that is required to ensure success. It would indeed 

 be a disgrace to us, if, for want of proper exertions, this fine collection 

 should be lost to the country. 



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