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made for hanging this placard on the walls of every National School 
in the conntry, and we are glad to learn that the same will be done in 
many other Irish schools. We trust that, in consequence of this 
measure, many articles which would otherwise be condemned to the 
melting pot, will be preserved, and find their proper place in the 
Museum of the Academy. 
An object in which the Council is much interested, is the preser- 
vation of the architectural and other national monuments of Ireland, 
which, in too many cases, have suffered, not only from the action of 
time, but from the hand of man. Our late President was in communi- 
cation with the Government as to the proper means to be adopted with 
a view to this end. One of the first steps to be taken for the purpose, 
is to obtain an exact enumeration of the monuments. We have had, 
within the past year, an important contribution towards such an enu- 
meration in the elaborate catalogue of those in the County of Kerry, 
which has been prepared and presented to us by Mr. Henry Stokes. 
Out of the sum of £200, placed at the disposal of the Academy, to 
aid the prosecution of scientific researches requiring expenditure on 
instruments or materials, the following grants have been made within 
the year : — 
1. To G. Johnstone Stoney, M. A., for Eesearches on the Refractive 
Index of Air for each Wave Length, £50. 
2. To Mr. B. B. Stoney, for Experiments on Rivets (additional), 
£10. 
3. To Dr. R. H. Traquair, for Researches on the Cranial Structure 
of Osseous Eishes, £25. 
4. To Dr. E. Reynolds, for Experiments on the Spectra of Chlorides 
under Yarying Conditions, (additional), £10. 
And it will be recommended to the Academy, at the approaching 
stated meeting, to sanction the following grants : — 
5. To G. Johnston Stoney, M. A., for Researches on the Interrupted 
Spectra of Gases, £50. 
6. To Professor R. S. Ball, for Experiments on Yortex Rings (addi- 
tional), £6. 
7. To Professor Hennessy, for Experiments on the Eriction of Eluids 
in Contact with Solids (additional), £20. 
8. To Mr. Thiselton Dyer, for Researches in Yegetable Physiology, 
£29. 
It is a condition of the granting of these sums that the researches 
thus aided shall be brought before the Academy, and published in its 
Transactions" or Proceedings." We may take the present oppor- 
tunity of requesting that gentlemen purposing to engage in scientific 
inquiries in the coming year, and desiring assistance from this fund, 
will send in their applications to the Council at as early a date as 
possible. 
In the month of I^ovember last we thought it incumbent on the 
Academy to take some action in view of the then probable destruction 
