487 



Whereupon it was — 



Eesolyed, — That the Eeport now read be received and adopted by 

 the Academy. 



The ballots for the annual election of President, Council, and Officers, 

 having been scrutinized in the face of the Academy, the President re- 

 ported that the following gentlemen were duly elected : — 



PnESiDENT The Very Eev. Charles Graves, D. D. 



Council. — Rev. Samuel Haughton, M. U., P. K S ; Eev. J. H. Jellett, 

 M.A.; Robert W. Smith, M. D.; Robert McDonnell, M.D. ; WilHam K. 

 Sullivan, LL. D.; Joseph B. Jukes, F. R. S. ; and George B. Stoney, 

 M. A., F. R. S. : on the Committee of Science. 



Rev. Joseph Carson, D. D.; John F.Waller, LL.D. ; John Kells 

 Ingram, LL.I). ; John Anster, LL.D. ; R. R. Madden, M.D. ; and Denis 

 F. Mac Carth}^, Esq. : on the Committee of Polite Literature. 



John T. Gilbert, Esq. ; Rev. William Reeves, D. D. ; George Petrie, 

 LL.D. ; W. H. Hardinge, Esq. ; Lord Talbot de Malahide ; Rev. J. H. 

 Todd, D. D. ; and Sir W. R. Wilde : on the Committee of Antiquities. 



Teeasueer. — Rev. Joseph Carson, D. D. 



Seceetaey of the Academy. — Rev. William Reeves, D.D. 



Seceetaey of the CoujfciL.— John Kells Ingram, LL. D. 



Seceetaey of Foeeign Coeeespondence. — Sir W. R. Wilde, M. D. 



■LiBEAEiAif.— John T. Gilbert, Esq. 



Cleek, Assistant Libeaeian, and Cueatoe or the Museum. — Ed- 

 ward Clibborn, Esq. 



The names of Carl Joseph Hyrtl, of Yienna ; F. Le Verrier, of Paris ; 

 and Herman Helmholtz, of Heidelberg — specially recommended by the 

 Council as Honorary Members — were read. Whereupon it was 



Resolved, .—That the ballot be dispensed, with ; and these gentlemen 

 were declared by the President to be unanimously elected Honorary 

 Members in the department of Science. 



Pursuant to the By-laws, chap, ii., sec. 15, Major-General Edward 

 Sabine, as President of the Royal Society of London, was declared an 

 Honorarj^ Member of the Academy. 



His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, having been proposed and 

 seconded as a member of the Academy (the preliminary notice being dis- 

 pensed with on privilege), was declared to be duly elected a Member of 

 the Academy. 



Sir W. R. Wilde exhibited and read the following paper on an — 

 Ancient Wooden Shield found in Ieeland. 



Sir W. R. Wilde, Yice-President, brought under the notice of the 

 meeting an ancient wooden shield, and said : — During the eighty years 

 and upwards which the Academy has been established, it has done good 

 service to the cause of science, polite literature and antiquities in Ire- 

 land, in the original communications which it has published, the library 



E. I. a. peoc. — vol. viii. 3 T 



