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The Secretary of Council brought up the report of the Council upon 
the two points in the Annual Eeport, referred back to Council at the 
Stated Meeting of the 16th of March last. 
It was moved by the Secretary of Council that the part of the 
Eeport referring to the placing of the gold objects on morone velvet, 
stand part of the Eeport. 
The Eesolution was adopted. 
The Secretary of Council proposed that the following additional 
sentence, recommended by the Council, be inserted in the Ee- 
port : — 
Any translations of pieces from these texts which may be pro- 
duced, will find an appropriate place in the Irish MSS. series, pub- 
lished by the Academy. And, if a translation of the whole of one of 
those MSS. should be completed by any competent scholar, the Council 
will be glad to assist towards its publication, so far as the funds at 
their disposal will permit." 
The proposed addition was adopted. 
The Secretary of Council then proposed that the entire Eeport, as 
amended, be now adopted, which passed unanimously. 
Eepoet. 
The Council have pleasure in repeating at the close of another'year 
the testimony they bore in their last Eeport to the growing prosperity 
of the Academy. There has been a large addition to the number of 
our members ; our finances are in a satisfactory state ; a high degree 
of intellectual activity has been evidenced by the communications 
brought before us, especially in the Department of Science ; and much 
has been done towards the greater security and the better arrange- 
ment of our Antiquarian Collections, and the provision of increased 
accommodation for students consulting our Library. 
The following Papers in the Transactions" have been printed 
since the date of our last Eeport : — 
On the Small Oscillations of a Eigid Eody about a Fixed Point 
under the Action of any Forces, and more particularly when Grravity is 
the only Force Acting." By Professor E. S. Ball. 
On the Morphology of Sexes in some Dioecious Plants." By 
David Moore, Ph. D. 
And the following are in the Press : — 
On an Ancient Chalice and Brooches, lately found at Ardagh, in 
the County of Limerick." By the Earl of Dunraven, 
^'Additional Observations on Muscular Anomalies in Human 
Anatomy." (3rd Series.) By Professor Macalister. 
In our last Eeport, Vol. x.. Part 4, of the "Proceedings," was 
announced to be almost ready for issue. It has since appeared, as also 
