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Minutes of the Academy. 
Apeil 27, 1874. 
William Stokes, M. J)., F. E. S., President, in the Chair. 
The following papers were read : — 
*' On some points in Bird Myology, considered in reference to 
Mr. Garrod's new Classification;" by Alexander Macalister, M. D,, 
M. E. I. A. 
"On an Ogham- inscribed stone at Eallycrovane, Co, Cork;" by 
Eichard E. Erash, Esq., M. E. I. A. 
Donations for the Musenm were presented, and thanks voted to the 
several donors. 
May, 11, 1874. 
William Stokes, M, D., E. E. S., President, in the Chair. 
The following congratulatory address to his Grace the Duke of 
Abercorn, on his appointment as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, was 
adopted, and the Officers of the Academy were instructed to have the 
same presented: — 
May it please yotje Geace— 
We, the President and Members of the Eoyal Irish Academy^ 
beg to approach you with our respectful congratulations on your 
appointment for the second time to fill the high office of Her Most 
Gracious Majesty's Eepresentative in Ireland. 
" To one already so well acquainted as your Grace with the 
institutions of this country, we need not do more than recall very 
briefly the nature and objects of the Eoyal Irish Academy. Pounded 
by Eoyal Charter more than eighty years ago, it has laboured — as we 
believe, not without a large measure of success — in the cultivation of 
Science, Polite Literature, and Archaeology. It has in its published 
* Transactions' made important contributions to the sum of knowledge 
in these departments of research. It has founded a Library, which 
contains, along with valuable Irish Manuscripts, an extensive collec- 
tion of works relating to the history of Ireland, as well as of the 
* Transactions ' of sister Societies, both British and Poreign. It has 
established a Museum of our J^ational Antiquities, which has acquired 
a world-wide reputation as a repository of objects fitted to illustrate 
the manners and social existence of one great European race. 
By the liberality of the Government it has been enabled, of late 
years, to afford assistance to individual scientific research, and to 
make available for the study of Celtic Scholars and comparative 
Philologists, by means of published facsimiles, the most important 
remains of Irish literature which are treasured in its own and other 
collections. 
