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The Aatiquities in the possession of the Academy already fill nearly 

 the entire space available for their reception ; and the Council are of 

 opinion that arrangements for extending the Museum will soon become 

 necessary. 



The Treasurer reports that it appeared from an investigation of 

 the accounts of the Academy, made on 7th March, that the net cash ba- 

 lance amounted to £232 Is, 10^^., and the outstanding liabilities to 

 £323 7s. 5d., leaving a deficit of £91 5s. Id., to be provided for either 

 by the sale of stock, or out of the income of the next financial year. The 

 payments made since that date for entrance fees and subscriptions 

 have reduced this deficit to about £12. 



The Academy has lost by death, during the past year, ten ordinary 



members, viz. : — 



Elected. 



'^l. Thomas P. Bergin, Esq., JTovember 30, 1836 



2. Yery Eev. Eichard Butler, April 11,1842 



*3. Eight Hon, Philip C, Cramp ton, .... January 23,1828 



4. Eugene Curry, Esq., January 30, 1853 



5. Yiscount Dungannon, January 8, 1849 



^'6. Eaton Hodgkinson, Esq., F. E. S., . . . l^ovember 30, 1847 



7. John E. Kinahan, M. D., F. L. S., . . . January 12,1857 



*8. Eev. Thomas M']N"eece, D.D., .... May 8,1831 



*9. Eev. Charles "W. WaU, D.D., .... April 10,1837 



10. George Yeates, Esq., February 24, 1845 



Five of these names meet us in the history of the labours of the 

 Academy : — 



1. Mr. Thomas F. Bergin was the author of the following papers, 

 which have appeared in our Proceedings" : — ^' On an Aurora,'' On 

 Talbotized Photogenic Paper," On Preservation of Eusted Anti- 

 quities," and "On Illumination of Objects in the Microscope." Mr. 

 Bergin presented to the Academy some interesting antiqnities. See 

 " Proceedings," vol. iv., p. 273. 



2. In Mr. Eugene Curry's death, this Academy and the cause 

 €f Irish learning have lost a scholar who possessed a familiar and accu- 

 rate acquaintance with the whole body of accessible Gaelic manuscript 

 Literature. Mr. Curry, in conjunction with the late Dr. O'Donovan, 

 transcribed and translated a great number of ancient texts for the Irish 

 Archaeological and Celtic Societies. He compiled for this Academy a 

 descriptive catalogue of a portion of the Irish manuscripts in its posses- 

 sion, and also prepared a catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the Library 

 of the British Museum, He published, in 1861, a volume entitled, 

 *' Lectures on the MS. Materials of Irish History ;" and it is understood 

 that he had nearly completed a second volume, On the Manners, Cus- 

 toms, and Social Life of the People of Ancient Erin." These courses of 

 lectures he had delivered as Professor of the Irish Language and Irish 

 Archaeology, in the Catholic University in this city. 



For several years before his death he had been emploj^ed, along 



