Minutes of the Academy. 
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Parts I. and II. of the first volume of a new series, and a third Part 
is in the printer's hands. 
In this new series a distinct pagination has been introduced for 
the papers on Science, and those on Polite Literature and Antiquities ; 
so that these different portions of our Proceedings" can he kept apart 
and hound separately if it should be thought desirable. We are in- 
debted to Rev. Dr. Eeeves for the compilation of the Index to Yol. x. 
"We feel deeply the kindness of that distinguished scholar in under- 
taking, for the benefit of the Academy, in this and previous instances, 
a task of so laborious and uninteresting a kind. 
We have received communications within the past year : — 
In Science — Prom Professor Hennessy, Dr. Sullivan, Professor 
O'Reilly, Dr. Stokes, Dr. Robert McDonnell, Mr. R. H. Prith, Dr. 
Sigerson, Mr. William Andrews, Mr. William Archer, Professor Pall, 
Mr. C. R. C. Tichborne, Professor Macalister, Mr. Gr. Johnstone Stoney, 
Professors King and Rowney, Dr. Dawson, Mr. Charles E. Burton, 
and Dr. T. Sterry Hunt. • 
In Polite Literature and Antiquities — Prom Rev. John O'Hanlon, 
Dr. Sigerson, Mr. W.H. Hardinge, Mr. D. P.Dowling, Dr. S.Perguson, 
Mr. Henry Stokes, Mr. A. Gr. More, and Mr. R. R. Brash. 
At the Stated Meeting on the 30th of N^ovember, the President 
delivered from the Chair an address on the present Condition and 
Prospects of the Academy, which was soon after issued, in the form 
of a separate publication, to all the Members, and to the Learned 
Societies with which the Academy is in correspondence. 
Much important work has been executed in the Library, under the 
superintendence of the Librarian. The unbound tracts and pamphlets, 
from the close of the sixteenth century to the year 1851, have been 
arranged and catalogued, and of this Catalogue fifteen volumes have 
been bound. Progress has been made towards completing defective 
sets of the publications of Institutions, and towards obtaining the 
chief home and foreign literary and scientific J ournals. The current 
numbers of these Journals, as well as of Transactions and Proceedings 
of Learned Societies, may now be found in our Reading-room, imme- 
diately after their publication, and a special arrangement has been 
made in that apartment to render these works readily accessible to 
students. 
Several donations have been received, amongst which may be men- 
tioned the Hydrographical Charts of the Irish Coasts, presented by the 
Lords of the Admiralty. But far the most important accession to the 
Library has been the valuable collection of works on JN'atural History, 
bequeathed to the Academy by our late distinguished fellow-country- 
man and fellow-member, Alexander Henry Haliday. 
The Catalogue of the Irish Manuscripts has been continued, and 
the edition of "Leabharna h-Uidhri," promised in our last Report, has 
been completed, and is now in the hands of subscribers. We con- 
gratulate the Academy on the success of this undertaking, which 
reflects high credit on the two Irish scholars, Messrs. O'Longan and 
