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rence in the value of money, that the price at present 

 charged was somewhat less than in the sixteenth century; 



and concluded by soliciting the assistance of the members in 

 bringing together as complete a series as possible of the pat- 

 terns still remaining in many of the ruined churches of 

 Ireland. 



The President read a Supplementary Notice of his Exa- 

 mination of Signor Badano's Memoir on the Resolution of 

 Equations of the Fifth Degree, and described the successful 

 application to cubic and biquadratic equations of the method 

 proposed by Badano, but which had been shown to be un- 

 successful with equations of higher degrees than the fourth. 



Rev. Dr. Marks, on the part of the Bishop of Cashel, 

 presented the seal used by the latter as Dean of St. Patrick's. 



