XI 



Special Meeting, March 4, 1867. 



The Eight Hon. Lokd Talbot de Malahide, President, in the Chair. 



A letter was read from the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, 

 President of the Council, requesting the loan of five objects from the 

 Museum of the Academy for the approaching International Exhibition 

 of Paris. 



The following resolution of the Council of the Academy on this 

 subject was read and agreed to : — 



That it be recommended to the Academy to comply with the re- 

 quest of the Lord President of the Council for the loan of Antiquities 

 for the Paris Universal Exhibition, with the exception of the Cross of 

 Cong, which is not in a condition to be moved with safety. 



Stated Meeting, March 16, 1867. 

 Sir W. R. Wilde, Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 The following Report of the Council was read and adopted : — 



Report. 



Within the past year the following papers have been printed in the 

 " Transactions" of the Academy: 



In the Department of Science — 



1. "On the Semidiurnal Tides of a number of Places in Ireland." 

 By the Rev. Samuel Haughton, M. D. 



2. "Ona Collection of Fossil Vertebrata from the J arrow' Colliery, 

 County Kilkenny." By Professor Huxley, and Dr. E. Perceval Wright 



In the Department of Polite Literature — 



" On the Science of Language." By the Rev. James Byrne (now 

 Dean of Clonfert). 



In the Department of Antiquities — 



1 . "On the Circumstances attending the Outbreak of the Civil War 

 in Ireland, 1641-52." By Mr. W. H. Hardinge. 



2. " On an Unpublished Essay on Ireland, by Sir Wm. Petty." By 

 Mr. W. H. Hardinge. 



The following paper is printed, but has not yet been issued : — 



"On a Previously Undescribed Class of Monuments." By the Lord 

 Bishop of Limerick. 



Of the "Proceedings," the 3rd and 4th Parts of Yol. IX. have been 

 issued since the date of the last Report ; and some progress has been 

 made in printing Part I. of Yol. X. 



We have had interesting and important communications brought 

 before us during the past year : — 



