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Appendix, 
The following Papers were read : — 
On certain Antiquities found in tlie Counties of Dublin, London- 
derry, and Queen^s County." By Sir W. E. Wilde, M. D. 
On a T^ew Step in the Proximate Analysis of Saccharine Sub- 
stances." Ey James Apjohn, M. D. 
Donations were presented, and thanks voted to the donors. 
Decembee 13, 1869. 
The Eev. J. H. Jellett, B. D., President, in the Chair. 
The following recommendations, brought up by the Secretary of 
Council, were adopted : — 
^'To sanction the repayment to certain Guarantors of the sum of 
£60 95. paid for photographing certain articles in the Academy's Mu- 
seum." 
To grant the following sums out of Special Parliamentary Grant, 
for Eeports, &c., on scientific subjects : — 
1. To Eev^ E. O'Meara, £30, to enable him to continue his Ee- 
searches on the Irish Diatomacese. 
2. To J. Bailey, Esq., £20, to carry out Experiments on ''Elitch 
Beams." 
3. To B. B. Stoney, Esq., to try Experiments on Eivetted Joints." 
4. To Henry Eennessy, E. E. S., £30, to determine the Influence 
of the Molecular Condition of Eluids on their Motion, when 
in Eotation, and in contact with Solids." 
Donations were presented, and thanks voted to the donors. 
Jaj^uaey 10, 1870. 
SiE EoBEET Kajj^e, E. E. S., Yice-Presidcnt, in the Chair. 
William Archer, Esq. ; Eobert S. Ball, M. A. ; Eobert Day, Esq, ; 
Jun. ; Sir John Esmonde, Bart., M. P. ; Thomas A. Jones, President, 
E. H. A. ; Eev. John P. Mahaffy, E. T. C. D. ; Joseph P. O'Eeilly, C. E. ; 
were elected Members of the Academy : — 
The following alterations in the By-Laws, recommended by Council, 
3rd January, 1870, were adopted by the Academy. 
That for Chap. L, 3. The Council is divided into three Committees, 
each consisting of seven Members, which Committees have for 
their objects, respectively, the Departments of Science, Polite Lite- 
rature, and Antiquities 
he substituted: — ''The Council is divided into two Committees; one 
consisting of eleven, the other of ten members — the former having 
for its object the Department of Science, and the latter those of 
Polite Literature and Antiquities." 
