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Royal Irish Academy. 
Part 4. "The Brain and Eyeball of a Human Cyclopian 
Monster." By D. J. Cunningham, m.d. (Edin. and Dubl.), Professor 
of Anatomy, Trinity College, Dublin ; and E. H. Bennett, m.d., 
Professor of Surgery in Trinity College, Dublin. 
Part 5. " On the Theory of the Content." By Sir Eobert 
Stawell Ball, ll.d., f.r.s., Andrews Professor of Astronomy in the 
University of Dublin, and Royal Astronomer of Ireland. 
The following is in the Press, and will be published immediately : 
Part 6. "The Tripartite Life of St. Patrick: JSTew Textual 
Studies." By the Eev. B. Mac Carthy, d.d., m.e.i.a., &c. 
Of the Proceedings^ Part 1 of the first volume of Series iii. was 
published in December, 1888, containing Papers in the various 
Departments of the Academy's work, the Council having deter- 
mined in the Third Series to revert to the original method of 
publishing Papers consecutively, instead of in separate sections of 
Science, Polite Literature, and Antiquities, respectively. 
The contributors of Papers during the year were : — Eev. Dr. 
Haughton, r.E.s., President of the Academy ; Professor J. Alex- 
ander, M.A.I. ; Sir E. S. Ball, f.e.s. ; Professor D. J. Cunningham, 
M.D. ; Eev. T. E. Espin, m.a. ; "W. Erazer, f.e.c.s.i. ; J. E. Gore, 
F.E.A.s. ; Professor A. C. Haddon, m.a. ; "W. J. Knowles ; Professor 
J. P. O'Eeilly, c.e. ; Brigade-Surgeon C. Sibthorpe ; A. "W. Thom- 
son, B.sc. ; "W. E. Wakeman ; Lieutenant-Colonel "W. G. Wood- 
Martin ; C. G. Young, m.d. ; and the Todd Professor, Eev. Bartholo- 
mew Mac Carthy, d.d. 
The following Grants in aid of the Preparation of Scientific 
Eeports have been sanctioned by the Academy : — 
£20 to Mr. Joly, for an investigation of the Melting Points and 
Thermal Expansions of Minerals. 
£10 to a Committee, consisting of Prof. G. E. Eitz Gerald, f.e.s., 
Prof. W. J. Sollas, and Mr. Smeeth, for the purposes of investigating 
the Electrical Eesistance of Crystals. 
£30 to Professor Cunningham, to aid him in his researches on 
" Cranio- Cerebral Topography." 
And the following will be submitted to the Academy at this 
Meeting : — 
£20 to Mr. W. J". Knowles, to enable him to continue his in- 
