Minutes of Proceedings, 
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Monday, Pebeuart 25, 1889. 
Hon. Mr. Justice O'HagaNj Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Eev. David B. Mulcahy, p.p., signed the EoU, and was admitted 
a Member of the Academy. 
Professor Bartholomew MacCarthy, d.d., read the Pourth Todd 
Memorial Lecture, Series III. Subject — ''Synchronisms from the 
Book of Ballymote." 
Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks were voted 
to the Donors. 
Saturday, March 16, 1889. 
(Stated Meeting.) 
Eight Hon. Sir Patrick J. Keenan, c.b., k.c.m.g., Yice-President, 
in the Chair. 
The Vice-President, in the Chair, declared the Ballot open for 
President and Council for the ensuing year, and appointed Deputy- 
Surgeon- General King and Dr. Mac Swiney Scrutineers. 
The Ballot was also opened for the election of Honorary Members, 
the Treasurer and Secretary of the Academy being appointed 
Scrutineers. 
The Secretary of Council read the following 
Eeport of the Council for the Year 1888-9. 
Since the date of the last Eeport of the Council the following 
Parts of the Transactions have been published : — 
Vol. xxix. 
Part 3. ''On Two-nosed Catenaries and their Application to 
the Design of Segmental Arches." By T. Alexander, c.e., Pro- 
fessor of Engineering, Trinity College, Dublin ; and A. W. Thomson, 
B.sc, Assoc. Mem. Inst., C. E., Lecturer in the Glasgow and 
"West of Scotland Technical College. 
