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in Vol. iii. ; On a New Mode of Determining the Longitude," and On 

 the Discovery of the Planet Metis," in Yol. iv. ; "On a Thunder 

 Storm," in Yol. v.; "On Ecliptic Catalogues," in Yol. vi. A Cun- 

 ningham Medal was awarded to him by this Academj^ in the year 1856, 

 for his " Catalogue of Ecliptic Stars." An account of his labours in the 

 preparation of this catalogue will be found in Yol. vii. of our " Proceed- 

 ings," p. 52, in the address delivered by the E-ev. J. H. Todd, D. D., on 

 the occasion of the presentation of the medal. Mr. Cooper was M. P. for 

 County of Sligo from 1830 till 1841, and again from 1857 to 1859. He 

 was also a Member of the Eoyal Society of London. 



3. The late eminent Archbishop of Dublin was for many years a 

 member of the Council of this Academy, and was several times nomi- 

 nated as one of its Yice-Presidents. In vol. i. of our "Proceedings" will 

 be found some remarks by His Grace, " On Barometric Prognostication 

 of the Weather;" and in Yol. ii., "Observations on the Leafing of 

 Plants." 



4. Dr. Daniel Griffin contributed to the " Proceedings " of the Aca- 

 demy, " A Description of certain Phenomena observed during the Li- 

 merick Whirlwind of October 5, 1851." 



5. Jonathan Osborne, M. D., was King's Professor of Materia Medica 

 and Pharmac}^, in the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland. 

 He read before the Academy, in 1840, a paper " On Aristotle's History 

 of Animals," an abstract of which will be found in our "Proceedings/' 

 vol. i., p. 427. In 1842 he gave an account of a singular case of de- 

 privation of the power of speech, while the intellect remained unim- 

 paired; and in 1850, a letter, " On a 'New Application of Thermome- 

 trical Observations for the Determination of Local Climates in reference 

 to the Health of Invalids." 



6. Major General J. E. Portlock, E. E., is best known as the author 

 of a Report on the Geology of the Co. Londonderry, and of parts of 

 Tyrone and Fermanagh (London, 1843). He was for some time a 

 member of the Council of the Academy. Abstracts of two communica- 

 tions made by him to the Academy will be found in Yol. i. of the 

 "Proceedings," " On Anatifa Yitrea" and "On Otis Erachyotos." 



The Academy has elected during the year one Honorary Member — 

 His Eoyal Highness the Prince of Wales. 

 And fourteen Ordinary Members : — 



1. The Et. Hon. the Earl of 



Eelmore. 



2. Christopher N. Bagot, Esq. 



3. Eev. Josiah Crampton, M. A. 



4. The Et. Hon. the Earl of 



Charlemont. 



5. The Et. Hon. the Earl of 



Donoughmore. 



6. Charles H. Eoot, Esq. 



7. The Et. Hon. the Earl of 

 Granard. 



8. G. Charles Garnett, Esq. 



9. Thomas W. Kinahan, Esq. 



10. J. J. Digges LaTouche,Esq. 



11. David E. Pigot, Esq. 



12. Major Eobert Poore. 



13. Edmund Waterton, Esq. 



14. Jas. W. Warren, Esq., M. A. 



