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Royal Irish Acadetny. 
Monday, May 14, 1888. 
Rev. Dk. Hatjghton, f.e.s., President, in tTie Chair. 
Mr. James A. Mahony was elected a Member of the Academy. 
Dr. Atkinson, on behalf of the Subscribers, presented to the 
Academy a Portrait, by Miss Sarah Purser, of the late Sir Samuel 
Ferguson, President of the Academy. The President, on behalf of 
the Academy, accepted the same. 
Dr. Tarleton took the Chair while the President read a Paper " On 
Geometrical Illustrations of Newlands' and Mendelejeff's Periodic 
Law of the Atomic Weights of the Chemical Elements. Part II. 
The Third and Fourth Periods— 3. The Titanium Period ; 4. The 
Germanium Period." 
The President having resumed the Chair — 
The Secretary read a Paper by Dr. C. G. Young " On the Habits 
and Anatomy of Opisthocomus cristatus.^^ 
Dr. Frazer read some Notes on Testoons of Henry YIII., with 
details of an undescribed Testoon of the Bristol mint, coined by 
Thomas Sharington. 
Dr. Frazer read some l^otes on a Powder Flask referable to the 
time of James I., with Celtic ornamentation. 
Professor Cunningham, m.d., exhibited some additional Models 
illustrative of Brain Growth. 
Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks were voted 
to the Donors. 
The following letter was read : — 
" EOYAL InSTITTJTIOIT, EDINBURGH, 
" Dear Sir, " April 26th, 1888. 
In acknowledging receipt of your letter accompanying 
the Diploma of Membership, permit me to express my sense of the 
very high honour the Eoyal Irish Academy has done me in electing 
me one of its Honorary Members in the Department of Polite 
Literature and Antiquities — an honour which I appreciate the more 
highly as coming from the Academy which has done, and is doing, so 
much to revive and foster the widening interest in Celtic Literature 
and Celtic Antiquities. 
" I am, dear Sir, 
Yours very truly, 
E. Perceval Wright, *' Joseph Anderson. 
Secretary, Royal Irish Academy.''^ 
