XVll 



April 8, 1867. 



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

 The following were elected Members : — 



Thomas A. Earrell, Esq., M.A. ; James Sullivan Green, Esq. ; 

 Anthony Hannagan, Esq. ; E. H. Jephson, Esq. ; Michael Merriman, 

 Esq. ; and Alexander George Eichey, Esq., LL. B. 



Samuel Downing, LL. D., was elected a Member of Council in the 

 Department of Science, in the place of B. B. Stoney, C.E., resigned. 



The President nominated the following Vice-Presidents for the en- 

 suing year : — 



Eev. George Salmon, D.D.; Eev. J. H. Todd, D.D.; Sir William 

 E. Wilde, M.D.; Eev. J. H. Jellett, M.A. 



The Eev. Joseph Carson resigned the office of Treasurer. 

 The following papers were read : — 



On the Mesoplodon, or Xiphius Sowerbiensis, recently discovered 

 on the Coast of Ireland ; by William Andrews, M.E.I.A. 



On the Eound Tower of Ardmore ; by H. M. Westropp, M.E.I.A. 



On the Eormation of Ground Ice in the Eiver Dodder ; by Henry 

 Hennessy, M. E. I. A. 



Donations were presented, and thanks voted to the donors. 



April 22, 1867. 



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

 The following resolution was agreed to : — 



That the Council be requested to submit to the next meeting of the 

 Academy a statement showing the Assets, Debts, and Liabilities of the 

 Academy on the 31st March, 1867, with a Eeport upon the measures 

 they would recommend for the discharge of such liabilities as may have 

 been embraced within the last financial year. 



The following papers were read :— 



On Antiquities found in Cairns in the Dekhan ; by Colonel Meadows 

 Taylor. 



On the Dunvegan Gup, and other Antiquities of the same Period 

 by J. H. Smith Esq. 



On the Histology of the Test of the Palliobranchiata : by Professor 

 W. King. 



Donations were presented, and thanks voted to the donors. 



Mat 13, 1867. 



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



Eev. Maxwell H. Close, and Standish H. 0' Grady, Esq., were 

 elected Members. 



r. I. A. PROC.' — vol„ x. c 



