Minutes of Proceedings. 
Cunningham Memoirs. 
JS^o. IT. Dynamics and Modern Geometry, a Kew Chapter in 
the Theory of Screws." Ey Sir Eobert S. Ball, ll.d., f.e.s., Royal 
Astronomer of Ireland. 
Also ''A List of the Papers published in the Transactions^ 
Cunningham Memoirs, and Irish Manuscript Series (4to) between 
the Years 1786 and 1886; with an Appendix giving the Thames of 
the Officers of the Academy from 1785 to 1887, and of those to 
whom the Academy's Cunningham Gold Medals have been awarded." 
Of the Proceedings, Part 6 of vol. iv. (Second Series), containing 
Papers on Science, and Part 8 of vol. ii. (Second Series), containing 
Papers on Polite Literature and Antiquities, were published in 
January, 1888. 
In the Todd Lecture Series, vol. ii., ''The Passions and Homilies 
from the Zeahhar Breac. Text, Translation, and Glossary." Py 
Robert Atkinson, m.a., ll.d. 
In the Department of Science the Contributors are : — Mr. 
Morgan W. Crofton ; Sir Robert Ball ; Mr. V. Ball ; Dr. Cunningham ; 
Dr. Brooks ; Mr. Gore ; Mr. Burton ; Dr. Bennett ; Mr. H. Hennessy ; 
Dr. Tarleton ; Mr. Haddon ; Mr. Alexander ; and Mr. Thomson. 
In the Department of Polite Literature and Antiquities : — The 
Bishop of Limerick ; Dr. Prazer ; Rev. P. A. Yorke ; Rev. Dr. Gwynn. 
The following Grants in aid of the Preparation of Scientific 
Reports have been sanctioned by the Academy : — 
£10 to the Rev. T. E. Espin, to assist him in his revision of 
Birmingham's Red Star Catalogue. 
£10 to Mr. Richard P, Vowell, for a Report on the Plora of the 
Shores and Neighbourhood of Loughs Corrib and Mask. 
£25 to Professor J. P. O'Reilly, as an additional grant for a 
Report on the Constitution of certain Cambrian Rocks. 
£10 to Mr. R. Lloyd Praeger, for the investigation of the Post- 
tertiary Estuarine Deposits of the E^orth of Ireland. 
£20 to Mr. W. J. Knowles, to investigate the Prehistoric Remains 
of the Sand Hills of the Coast of the Northern Counties of Ireland. 
£15 (additional) to Professor O'Reilly, for investigating the 
Chemical Constitution of the Cambrian Rocks of Bray. 
