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March 16. (Stated Meeting). 



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



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 have been, 

 for the most part, of a similar character to those which have formed 

 the subjects of former Keports. It is, however, satisfactory to the 

 Council to be able to state, that our proceedings have been distin- 

 guished by still increasing activity and zeal among our members, 

 and that some important measures have been entered upon, and 

 others brought to completion, which it is to be expected will tend 

 permanently to sustain the reputation of the Academy, and extend 

 its useful influence. 



" The second part of the nineteenth volume of the Ti-ansactions 

 of the Academy is now printed, and the Council is enabled to place 

 before the Academy an early copy. In a few days it will be ready 

 for distribution among the members. 



" The twentieth volume, which will altogether consist of Mr. 

 Petrie's Essay on the Eound Towers, is progressing through the 

 Press ; and a portion of the twenty-first volume is in the hands of 

 the printer. 



" The Council have with great pleasure to report, that the va- 

 luable collection of Irish antiquities amassed by the late Dean of 

 St. Patrick's, having been purchased by a subscription, has been 

 presented by the subscribers to the Academy. The amount sub- 

 scribed having slightly exceeded the cost of the Collection, the 

 balance was applied to the purchase of some other valuable relics 

 of antiquity, which were also presented to the Academy, and now 

 form part of its Museum. The detailed circumstances connected 

 with the collection and application of this subscription, and the 

 eminent services rendered to the Academy and to Irish Archaeology 

 by various gentlemen, to whose exertions final success was mainly 

 due, have already been brought under your notice in the Report 

 drawn up by the Committee of Antiquities, and presented to the 

 Academy in November last by Dr. Todd. The Council have there- 



