THIRD SERIES.] [VOL. I.— Mo. 1 . 
CONTENTS. 
i'AGE 
1. — Furthev Notes ou the Identilicatioii oi' tlic Animals and I'lants of 
India which Avere known to Karly Greek Authors. Jjy V. Ball, 
]M.A., F.lLtS., Director of the Science and Art Museum, Dublin, . l 
2. — Ou a new ]Methud of obtainiuy- the Conditions fulfilled when the 
Harmonic Determinant Kquation has Equal Roots. By Fkancis 
A. Taklkton, LL.D., F.T.C.D., .10 
o. — On the Determination of the Numerical Factors in the Expansion of 
Faplaee's Coefficients. By Fe.vncis A. Tarleton, LL.D., F.T.C.D., . )6 
-1, — Note on the Application of Symbolical Methods to the Solution of 
certain Functional Equations. By M. W. Cuofton, . . . 20 
d.—On the Double Star, Struve, 2120. By E. GoiiE, F.Il.A.S., 
Honorary Associate and Vice-President of the liiverpool Astrono- 
mical Society, . . . . . . . . . . .24 
6. — On the Double Star, 45 Greniinorum =i 02 16.5. By J. E. Goke, 
F.R.A.S., Honorary Associate and A^ice-President of the Liverpool 
Astronomical Societ}', ......... 28 
7. — Second Report ou tlie Marine Fauna of the South-West of Ireland. 
By Pkofessok Haddon, and Rev. W. S. Green, .... 29 
8. — Notes on a Collection of Native Weapons and Implements from 
Tropical AVestern Australia (Kimberley District), By Edwakd 
T. Haedman, F.R. G.S.I. : of H. M. Geological Survey ; late 
Government Geologist attached to the Kimberley Surveying FiX- 
peditions, 1883 and 1884. (Plates I., II., and III.), . . . 67 
9. — Notes on some Habits and Customs of the Natives of the Kimberley 
District, Western Australia. By Edwakd T. Haedman, F.R.G.S.I., 
Her Majesty's Geological Survey; late Government Geologist, Western 
Australia, 70 
10. — Notes on Worked Flints found on a Raised Beach at Portrush in 
August, 1886. By W. J. Simpson, Belfast, . . . . . 76 
11. — The Peroneus Quinti Digiti. By D. J. Cunningham (M.D. Edin. et 
Dubl.), Professor of Anatomy, Trinity College ; and H. St. John 
Beooks, M.D., Dubl., Demonstrator of Anatomy, Trinity College," 
Dublin, 78 
12. — Geometrical Illustrations of Newlands' and Mendelejeff's Periodic Law 
of the Atomic Weights of the Chemical Elements. By Rev. Samuel 
Haughton, M.D. (Plates lY.-YIIL), 82 
13. — A Revised Catalogue of Variable Stars, with Notes and Observations. 
By J. E. Gore, M.R.I. A., F\R.A.S., &c., Honorary Associate and 
Vice-President of the Liverpool Astronomical Society, . . . 97 
14. — Modern Mathematics. By R. A. Roeeets, M.A., Trinity College^ 
Dublin, . . 151 
15. — On Testoons of Henry VIII., with Details <if an Undescribed Testoon of 
the Bristol Mint, Coined by Sir William Sharington. By W. Feazee, 
. F.R.C.S.L, Member of Council, 157 
16. — On some Ancient Monuments, Scheduled under Sir Jolm Lubbock's Act, 
1882. ByT. N.Deane. (Plate IX.), 161 
17. — On the Variable Star /n Cephei. By J. E. Goee, F'.R.A.S., . . .166 
List of Membees, Corrected to 1st July 1888. 
DubUn : Printed at the University Press, by PONSONBY & WELDRICK, 
Printers to the Academy. 
