Minutes of the Academy. 
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Your Grace is, by virtue of your high office, Visitor of the 
Academy. We hope that you will have leisure amidst your arduous 
duties to inspect our Museum, which has been recently re-arranged, 
and which it is purposed soon to open to the Public more completely 
than has been possible heretofore. We trust also that we shall 
receive your countenance and support in carrying out the objects of 
our foundation, and be thus enabled to contribute still more 
effectually to the promotion of Scientific and Literary culture 
amongst our fellow-countrymen. It is our earnest hope that the 
period of your Grace's rule may be one of peace and prosperity, and 
that all the interests of Ireland, intellectual and moral, no less 
than material, may flourish under your enlightened administra- 
tion." 
William F. Barrett, Esq. ; Abraham Kidd, M. D. ; and Arthur 
Wynne Foote, M. D., were elected members of the Academy. 
The following papers were read : — 
On the identification of the site of the engagement of the ' Pass 
of Plumes' by the Rev. J. O'Hanlon, M. R. I. A. 
On a new Parasitic Crustacean by E. Perceval Wright, M. D., 
Secretary of Academy. 
Several Books were presented, and thanks voted to the donors. 
May 25, 1874. 
William Stokes, M. D., F. R. S., President, in the Chair. 
The President read from the Chair the reply given by His Grace 
the Lord Lieutenant to the address presented from the Academy, as 
follows : — 
I cannot but feel very highly gratified at the cordial manner 
with which, in common with other enlightened, cultivated, and 
scientific bodies, you, the representatives of the Royal Irish Academy, 
have welcomed my return to the Viceroy alty of Ireland. 
"I know well the excellent objects for which your Charter 
was granted to you nearly a hundred years ago, and I have had 
ampl€ opportunities of noticing for myself the admirable manner 
in which the intentions of your founders have been carried out. 
Your published ' Transactions ' have made known to the world at 
large your zeal and success in advancing the study of Polite 
Literature and Archseology, and I am informed by one amply 
qualified to speak on such matters that your Museum of jN'ational 
Antiquities is scarcely, if at all, inferior to those most renowned 
in Europe, in the beauty, variety, and richness of its collection. 
