Minutes of Proceedings. 
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Eesolved, that it be recommended to the Academy to assent to the 
proposal of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, relative to the transfer 
of the funds of the Academy (£4005), now in the IS'ew Three per 
Cents., to the Two-and-three-quarters per Cents., and to give assent 
to the proposal to transfer the f ands (£3290) now in Consols likewise," 
The Recommendation was approved and adopted. 
Monday, Apeil 9, 1888. 
Eev. De. Haughton, r.E.s., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. George Walpole signed the EoU, and was admitted a Member 
of the Academy. 
Mr. George D. Eurtchaell, m.a., ll.b., and Mr. Edward M. 
Sellers, m.a., were elected Members of the Academy. 
The Secretary read a Paper by Mr. J. E. Gore, f.e.a.s., " On the 
Variable Star /a Cephei." 
Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks were voted 
to the Donors. 
Monday, Apeil 23, 1888. 
Eev. De. Haughton, p.e.s.. President, in the Chair. 
Mr. G. D. Eurtchaell and Mr. E. M. Sellers signed the EoU, and 
were admitted Members of the Academy. 
Sir Patrick Keenan, Yice-President, took the Chair while the 
President read a Paper "On Geometrical Illustrations of ITewlands' 
and Mendelejeff's Periodic Law of the Atomic Weights of the 
Chemical Elements. Part I. Hydrogen, and the Eirst and Second 
Periods following it— 1. The Carbon Period; 2. The Silicon Period." 
The President having resumed the Chair, 
Professor Haddon, m.a., read a Paper entitled " Contributions 
towards a Eevision of the British Actiniae." Part I. 
Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks were voted 
to the Donors. 
The Eev. Dr. Haughton, f.e.s., President, was elected a Eepresen- 
tative of the Eoyal Irish Academy on the Board of Yisitors of the 
Museum of Science and Art, Dublin, in the room of the late Eev. 
Dr. Jellett. 
