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Stated Meeting, March 16, 1869. 

 Lord Talbot de Malahlde, President, in the Chair. 

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



Report. 



Since our last Report was submitted to the Academy, the following 

 Paper has been printed in our " Transactions " : — 



On Ziphius Sowerbyi. By Mr. W. Andrews. 

 The three following are nearly ready for issue : — 



On the Histology of the Test of the Palliobranchiata. By Pro- 

 fessor W. King. 

 On Bicircular Quartics. By Mr. John Casey ; and 

 Contributions to the History of the Terebenes, Part I. By Mr. 

 C. R. C. Tichborne. 

 The printing of Part III. of the Tenth Yolume of the " Proceedings " 

 is almost completed, and it will very soon be in the hands of Members. 

 We have received communications in the past year — 



In Science, from Mr. John Kelly, Professor Hennessy, Mr. J. R, 

 Young, Professor AY. K. Sullivan, Professor E. Perceval 

 Wright, and Mr. Charles R. C. Tichborne. 

 In Polite Literature, from Mr. H. S. Sweetman, Professor 



Lottner, Mr. W. M. Hennessy, and Professor Connellan. 

 In Antiquities, from Mr. W. H. Wakeman, Mr. H. M. Westropp, 

 Rev. J. P. Shearman, Dr. William Frazer, Mr. Henry Par- 

 kinson, Rev. James Graves, Mr. R. R. Brash, Mr. G. Y. 

 Du Koyer, Mr. Michael Brogan, and the Earl of Dunraven. 



The year which has now come to a close has been a very laborious one 

 for the Council and Officers of the Academy. In consequence of having 

 obtained a large addition to our annual grant, we have been led to 

 adopt measures for improving the condition of our several departments, 

 and reorganizing our system in various important respects ; and this 

 has made necessary an unusual amount both of joint deliberation and 

 of individual effort. 



The necessity of appointing a Library and a Museum Clerk had 

 been long felt, and had been again and again urged on the Government 

 as one of the reasons for increasing the amount of our grant. A portion 

 of the additional sum voted by Parliament having been allocated to this 

 purpose, the Council proceeded to take steps for the selection of persons 

 to fill these offices. After repeated discussion of the subject and much 

 correspondence, it was decided to open the appointments to general 

 competition, without nomination. It was also judged expedient, after a 

 correspondence with the Civil Service Commissioners, to place the exa- 

 mination of Candidates in their hands, the Council prescribing the qua- 

 lifications to be required. The examination has already taken place, 



