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The following recommendation of the Council was adopted : — 
To recommend the Academy to allocate the sum of £50 to G. J. 
Stoney, Esq., in aid of his researches on the refractive index of air for 
each wave length. 
December 12, 1870. 
Rev. J. H. Jellett, B. D., President, in the Chair. 
Eohert D. Joyce, M. D., Boston, U. S., was elected a Member of 
the Academy. 
The following Papers were read : — 
*'0n the difficulties attendant on the transcription of Ogham 
Legends, and the means of avoiding them." (Part 2nd.) By Samuel 
Perguson, LL. D. 
''On some new or little-known freshwater Rhizopods." By 
William Archer, Esq. 
Januaet 9, 1871. 
Rev. J. H. Jellett, B. D., President, in the Chair. 
Very Rev. Ulick J. Bourke, George Woods Maunsell, Esq., John 
Symons, Esq., Ramsay H. Traquair, M. D., were elected Members of 
the Academy. 
The following Papers were read : — 
" Laboratory I^^'otes." 
IS'o. 1. ''On the formation of Acetic acid by the destructive distil- 
lation of Resin." 'Eo. 2. "On the production of Ozone by Resin oils." 
By Charles R. C. Tichborne, E. C. S. 
"On the Cause of the interrupted Spectra of Gases. By G. J. 
Stoney, E. R. S. 
" On existing I^ational Monuments in the County of Kerry." By 
Henry Stokes, C. S. 
The Secretary read the letters received from learned bodies, in 
reply to his note, enclosing copies of Memorial to Her Majesty's 
Government (see p. xxvi.), addressed to them. 
These letters will be found in the " Correspondence relative to the 
Bombardment of Paris," p. xxv., et seq. 
A letter was also read from Mons. George Livio, Consul of Erance, 
in Dublin. This letter will be found in the Correspondence just re- 
ferred to. 
The proposed estimate of income and expenditure for the year 
1870-71, adopted by the Council, was laid before the Academy. 
