X 
Appendix. 
beautiful chalice and brooches found at Ardagh. It appears to us 
in the highest degree desirable that these fine specimens of ancient Irish 
art should find a permanent place in our E"ational Museum, where 
they can best be compared with other products of the same school, and 
where they will be accessible, whether for purposes of antiquarian 
study, or as models to act in the way of stimulation and suggestion on 
modern ornamental artists in this country. We have accordingly laid 
before the Government, through His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, 
a memorial praying that the articles in question be purchased, and 
deposited in our Collection. "We have included in the same application 
another interesting relic, the property of the representatives of the late 
Eev. Dr. Todd — namely, the ancient Bell, commonly called the Bell of 
St. Patrick, with the elaborate cover or shrine which contains it. The 
decision of the Government on the subject of this memorial has not yet 
been received. 
!N"o antiquities of importance have been offered to the Academy for 
purchase during the past year. 
The Council have had under consideration the formation of a more 
complete Lapidary Museum than we now possess ; and, in particular, 
the collection of a set of authentic casts of the chief Ogham inscriptions 
found in the British Islands ; and they have resolved to place a grant, 
to be devoted to this purpose, at the disposal of the Committee of Polite 
Literature and Antiquities. 
Out of the sum of £200 placed at the disposal of the Academy for 
the pui^pose of aiding the prosecution of scientific researches requiring 
expenditure on instruments or materials, the following grants have 
been made during the past year : — 
1. To the Rev. E. O'Meara, for further Researches on the Irish 
Diatomacese, £30. 
2. To Mr. J. Bailey, for Experiments on Flitch Beams, £20. 
3. To Mr. B. B. Stoney, for Experiments on Riveted Joints, £20. 
4. To Professor Hennessy, for Experiments to determine the In- 
fluence of the Molecular Condition of Eluids on their Motion 
when in Rotation and in Contact with Solids, £30. 
5. To Professor King, for Researches on the Jointing, Foliation, and 
Cleavage of Rocks, £25. 
6. To Professor Ball, for Experiments on the Telocity of Smoke 
Rings in Air, £25. 
And it will be recommended to the Academy at the approaching 
Stated Meeting, to give its sanction to the following additional 
grants : — 
7. To Dr. John Barker, for Experiments on Microscopic Illumi- 
nation, £20. 
8. To Dr. Emerson Reynolds, for Researches on the Spectrum 
Analysis of Chlorine, &c., £15. 
9. To Dr. Furlong, for Experiments on the Innervation of the 
Heart, £15. 
