XXIV 



January 13, 1868. 

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

 The following were elected members of the Academy :— 



Henry Oliver Barker, LL.D. ; Right Hon. Colonel Fitz-Stephen 

 French, M.P. ; George H. Kinahan, Esq. ; Robert Edwin Lyne, Esq. ; 

 John Chaloner Smith, Esq. ; Richard D. Urlin, Esq. ; and J". Obins 

 "Woodhouse, Esq. 



The following papers were read: — 



" On certain Frankish Antiquities ;" exhibited by the President. 

 " On the Occurrence of the Number Two in Irish Proper Karnes ;" 

 by P. W. Joyce, Esq. 



" On the Rotation of the Moon by William Ogilby, Esq. 



Donations were presented, and thanks voted to the donors. 



January 27, 1868. 

 Joun Kells Ingram, LL.D., in the Chair. 

 The following Resolution was adopted : — 



To lend to the Leeds Exhibition a selection of articles illustrative 

 of Irish Art from our Museum ; such resolution and the conditions of 

 the loan to be arranged by the Committee of Antiquities. 



The following Report of the Committee of Economy to the Council, 

 dated November 9, 1867, and read to the Council November 18, 1867, 

 was brought up, and read: — 



" The Committee of Economy, in reference to the Council resolution 

 of the 4th inst., beg to report, for the information of the Royal Irish 

 Academy, as required by their resolution of the 22nd April last, that 

 upon careful investigation it appears to the Committee that the debts 

 and liabilities of the Academy on March 31, 1867, amounted to the sum 

 of £304 16s. 9d., and that, giving credit for a sum of £43 3s. 8d. then 

 in hands, there was due to the Academy's tradesmen and others a sum 

 of £261 13s. Id. 



" It appears by the Minutes of Council of 20th May last, that this 

 Committee recommended that said debt should be paid out of the Aca- 

 demy's funded stock, which recommendation the Council then referred 

 back to the Committee for reconsideration. 



" Your Committee consequently prepared a modified estimate of the 

 expenditure of the Academy for the current year to 31st March, 1868, 

 limiting the amount usually esimated under every head, excepting per- 

 manent appropriations and salaries, and reducing that for printing 

 ' Proceedings' and 1 Transactions' from an annual average expenditure 

 of £266 to a sum of £120. 



