Minutes of the Academy. 
Ixix 
of Salts in Hot Solutions, and on the History of the Terebenes, 
£50. 
To Mr. E. T. Hardman, for Chemico-Geological Eesearches, £30. 
To Professor E. S. Ball, for further Eesearches on the Motion of 
Vortex Eings,- £25. 
To Professor S. Downing, for Eesearches on the Motion of Water 
through Curved Tubes, £25. 
To Mr. P. S. Abraham, for Eesearches on the coast of Madeira, £50. 
And the Academy will be asked, at the stated Meeting, to sanction the 
grantof the remaining portion of the fund (after deduction of expenses) — 
viz., £19. 45. ^d., to^Mr. Charles P. Cotton, for Eesearches on the 
Strength, Stiffness, &c., of Bent Iron Plates. 
The following Members were elected within the past year : 
1. Lieutenant-Colonel Francis E. Macnaghten. 
2. Brian O'Looney, Esq. 
3. Eight Hon. Patrick Bulfin, Lord Mavor of Dublin. 
4. W. A. T. Amhurst, Esq. 
5. Captain Eichard Cooper. 
6. Whitley Stokes, Esq., LL. D. 
7. Colonel Frederick Tyrrell. 
The Academy has lost by death within the year ten ordinary mem- 
bers, viz. : 
Eight Hon. Patrick Bulfin, Lord Mayor of Dublin, elected May 8, 
1871. 
John E. Pigot, Esq., elected June 9, 1851. 
Eev. T. D. F. Barry, elected January 8, 1866. 
Joseph Watkins, Esq., E. H. A., elected April 11, 1870. 
Eight Hon. Edwin E. Windham Wyndham, Earl of Dunraven and 
Mount-Earl, F.E. S., elected October 25, 1830. 
Eobert Callwell, Esq., elected February 10, 1838. 
George Alexander Hamilton, Esq., LL. D., elected January 13, 
1845. 
Eight Hon. Edward Lucas, elected January 13, 1845. 
James Graham Hildige, Esq., F. E. C S. I., L. K. Q. C. P. L, elected 
January 10, 1859. 
William D. Moore, M. D., elected December 12, 1859. 
One of the Members we have lost took a very earnest interest and 
an active part in the work of the Academy — we mean Lord Dunraven. 
He was born at Adare Manor, in the county of Limerick, on the 
19th of May, 1812. He was educated at Eton, and Trinity College, 
Dublin. In early life he was devoted to the study of astronomy, and 
resided for about two years at the Dublin Observatory, where he earnestly 
occupied himself with observing- work, under the direction of Sir 
William E. Hamilton. These labours proved detrimental to his sight, 
and in consequence of this he abandoned a project he had formed of 
erecting a first-class observatory at Adare. He always, however, re- 
tained a great interest in the science, and became a Fellow of the Eoyal 
Astronomical Society. So early as 1830, when he was but in the 
19th year of his age, he was elected a Member of this Academy, of 
