Minutes of the Academy. 
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The following were elected 
Honorary Members of the Academy, in the department of Science : — 
Marcellin Berthelot, Paris. 
Johann von Lamont, Munich. 
Thomas Henry Huxley, London. 
The following recommendations from the Council for grants out of 
the fund for Scientific Eeports, were adopted by the Academy:- — 
£30 to Messrs, Studdert and Caldwell, for chemical analysis of thg 
Mineral waters at Lisdoonvarna. 
£30 to Alexander Macalister, M. B., to be expended in the purchase 
of rare insectivora and other mammals for dissection, in order to enable 
him to report on the Myology of Mammals. 
£40 to Mr. W. H. Baily to investigate the Fossils of the Coal 
districts of Ireland, with a view to their comparison with those of 
British and other Coal-fields. 
£50 to Eev. S. Haughton, M. D., to complete an investigation 
into the Chemical and Mineral composition of the Lava flows of 
Vesuvius. 
£39 175. Il6^. to David Moore, Ph.D., for the investigation and 
arrangement of the Irish Hepaticse. 
. The thanks of the Academy were voted to the ex~ President. 
Apeil 13, 1874. 
William Stokes, M. D., F. R. S., President, in the Chair. 
Ernest H. Goold, Esq. ; H, S. Sweetman, Esq. ; and Stephen 
M. Mc Sweeny, M. D., were elected members of the Academy. 
The following papers were read : — 
On some improvements of his comparable self-acting Hygro- 
meter;" by M. Donovan, Esq. 
On a new method of finding the equation of the squares of the 
differences of the roots of a bi-quadratic, given by its general equation ;" 
by John Casey, LL. D., M. P. I. A. 
On the Anatomy of the Coati Mondis and Marten;" by H. W. 
Macintosh, B. A. 
On accessory Lobes of the Human Lung;" by Dr. E. W. 
Collins. 
Several Books were presented, and thanks were voted to the 
donors. 
