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of Leinster by the joint action of the Academy and of Trinity College, 
to which latter body the manuscript belongs. This announcement will 
be received with much gratification, as it has long been desired that 
the contents of this valuable collection of ancient Irish pieces should be 
made generally available to those who are interested in such researches. 
The catalogue of our Irish Manuscripts has been continued. A Regis- 
ter of the Library has been commenced, and a considerable portion of it is 
already completed. Among the additions to our Library during the 
past year, we may specially mention the Ordnance Survey of the 
Peninsula of Sinai, presented by Her Majesty's Government ; and a 
copy of the late Professor 0' Curry's Catalogue of the Irish Manuscripts 
in the British Museum, for which we are indebted to the liberality of 
our fellow-member, the Rev. Maxwell Close. We have also obtained, 
by application to the Commissioners for the publication of the Ancient 
Laws and Institutes of Ireland, a copy of seventeen volumes of the tran- 
script of the Brehon Laws, made for the Commissioners by the late Dr. 
O'Donovan and Professor 0' Curry. Every facility consistent with the 
rules of the. Academy is aiforded in the Library to persons who desire 
to consult our collections whether of printed books or of manuscripts. 
It was mentioned in our last Report that steps were in progress for 
preparing a revised code of the Statutes and By-laws of the Academy. 
Such a code has since been completed and submitted to you, and has 
received your assent. It is believed that the effect of the revision has 
been to remove a number of inconsistencies and ambiguities, and to 
bring the whole of our Laws and Regulations for the first time into a 
complete, harmonious, and intelligible form. 
The list of Council, Officers, and Members, which had not been 
printed since 1866, has undergone a complete revision, and has been 
issued to members within the past year. It appears from it that the 
number of our Members on the 1st December 1872, was as follows: — 
Life Members, 200; Annual Members, 150; and Honorary Members, 
50, making a total of 400. 
The Council have reason to anticipate that the Treasurer's Report, 
when presented — as usual after the close of the present month — will 
show a highly satisfactory state of the Academy's finances. 
The existing regulations respecting Medals and Premiums to be 
given out of the interest of the Cunningham Fund not having been 
found to work satisfactorily, have been repealed, so that awards 
can for the future be made from it as may be thought expedient, 
or as fitting occasion may arise, subject to no restriction except those 
imposed by the will of the testator. The first use the Council have 
made of the freedom of action thus recovered has been one which they 
believe will meet with the unanimous approval of the Academy — 
namely, to award a Cunningham Medal to Sir "William Wilde, as a 
permanent mark of the Academy's appreciation of his labours in con- 
nexion with the Catalogue of the Museum. The Council have also 
resolved to oifer, out of the same fund, four Premiums, of Pifty Pounds 
