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audited by the Local Government Board, a slight diminution 

 is shown by the balance in hand, but this is fully accounted for 

 by the large sum spent on necessary repairs to the building and 

 the cases. 



A list of donations to the Museum and of the numerous 

 publications received in exchange from home and foreign 

 societies will be presented with the present Report. 



Amongst the donations, that of Lord Deramore is specially 

 noteworthy, comprising as it does a large number of valuable 

 Irish antiquities, and some Greek and Roman. The Irish 

 bronzes have been arranged by themselves in the Benn Room, 

 and the stone implements and some ethnological specimens 

 have been incorporated with the general collections. A number 

 of good fossils remain, for which there is no space available at 

 present. Many valuable objects from the recent excavations at 

 Abydos have been presented by the Egypt Exploration Fund, 

 through the good offices of Mr. John Ward, J. P., F.S.A. Such 

 other donations as have been received during the year have 

 been placed in their proper cabinets. Your Council have under 

 serious consideration the necessity of rearranging the contents 

 of the Museum, and making as complete as possible the Irish 

 natural history collections. In view of the meeting of the 

 British Association next year in Belfast, they have also decided 

 on having a loan collection of Irish antiquities, &c., following 

 the precedent of their action when the first meeting was held 

 here in 1S52. The Council desire to express their best thanks 

 to the local Press for their admirable reports of the Society's 

 meetings. Five members of Council retire from office, of which 

 four are eligible and offer themselves for re-election — viz., 

 Messrs. R. Lloyd- Patterson, J. H. Davies, John Horner, and 

 Robert Young. 



The Hon. Treasurer (Mr. W. H. Patterson) submitted the 

 Statement of Accounts, from which it appeared that the 

 expenditure amounted to ;^252 los. 2d., while the income was 

 £2)^S 14s- 6d., leaving a balance in hands of ^d'^ 4s. 4d. 



Mr, Lloyd-Patterson moved the adoption of the Report. He 



