Minutes of Proceedings, 
9 
Monday, Decembee 12, 1887. 
Eev. De. Hatjghton, f.e.s., President, in the Chair. 
Eev. Prancis O'Brien, p.p., and Mr. Seaton Porest Milligan were 
elected Members of the Academy. 
The Secretary read a Paper by Sir Eobert Ball, f.e.s., " Eesearches 
on the Theory of Distance." 
The Secretary read a Paper by Mr. J. E. Gore, f.e.a.s., On 
the Double Star, 45, Geminorum." 
Professor Haddon, m.a., read a Second Eeport On Deep-Sea 
Dredging off the South- West Coast of Ireland." 
Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks were voted 
to the Donors. 
An Index to the Papers published in the Transactions, Cunning- 
ham Memoirs and Irish Manuscript Series (4to), between the years 
1786 and 1886, with an Appendix giving the names of the Officers of 
the Academy from 1785 to 1887, and of those to whom the Academy's 
Cunningham Gold Medals have been awarded, was laid on the table. 
The following !N"otice of Motion was handed in by Mr. J. T. 
Gilbert :— 
JS'otice of Eecommendation to Council to be proposed at the next 
Meeting of the Academy. 
" That, as the Pour Volumes in the Irish Language, issued by the 
Academy, are not accompanied by English versions, and as their con- 
tents are consequently unavailable to the public, the Council be 
recommended to consider the matter, and report to the Academy, at 
its next Meeting, on the practicability of procuring and publishing 
translations of these books by means of the £400 voted annually to 
the Academy by the House of Commons for works on Irish MSS. ; and 
also whether, for this object, allocations could be made from the 
interest of the Cunningham Pund, now at the disposal of the 
Academy." 
