Minutes of the Academy. 
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Twenty-one ordinary Members have been elected during the past 
year : — 
1 . Eichard Joseph Cruise, Esq. 
2. Sir Arthur Guinness, Bart. 
3. John Vickers Heily, M.D. 
4. George Macartney, Esq. 
5. Thomas F. Pigot, Esq., C.E. 
6. Joseph Watkins, Esq., 
R. H. A. 
7. Abraham Eitz-Gibbon, Esq., 
C. E. 
8. Emanuel Hutchins, Esq. 
9. John Kelly, Esq. 
10. John P. Keane, Esq., C. E. 
1 1 . Hugh Leonard, Esq. 
12. Eight Hon. the Earl of 
Eosse. 
13. The Lord Yentry. 
14. Eobert D. Joyce, M. D. 
15. Very Eeverend Ulick J. 
Bourke. 
16. George "Woods Maunsell, 
Esq., M. A. 
17. John Symons, Esq. 
18. Eamsey H. Traquair, M.D. 
19. Eev. P. Shuldham Henry, 
D. D. 
20. Henry Dix Hutton, Esq. 
LL. B. 
21. J. W. Ellison Macartney, 
Esq. 
One Honorary Member has been elected in the Department of 
Polite Literature and Antiquities : — 
Professor Heinrich Ewald, of Gottingen. 
The following Eecommendation of the Council of 3rd April, 1871, 
was unanimously adopted : — 
' ' That the Academy purchase the Bell and Bell Shrine of St. 
Patrick from Dr. Todd, for £500, and that the Council be authorised 
to make such arrangements for the payment of that sum as the 
funds of the Academy will permit." 
The following Papers were read : — 
On the Eloatation of Sand by the incoming tide at the mouth of 
a tidal river." By Professor Hennessy, E. E. S. 
On the Mineral Origin of the so-called ' Eozoon Canadense.' " By 
Professors William King, Sc. D., and Thomas H. Eowney, Ph. D. 
Addendum to a Paper on Eozoon." By Principal Dawson, of 
M'Gill College, Montreal. 
A vote of thanks was passed to Professors King and Eowney for 
their Paper. 
Donations were received, and thanks voted to the several donors. 
