Minutes of Proceedings. 
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£5 to Professor M. Hartog, ph.d., to assist him in his Researches 
into the Physical Structure of Protoplasm. (Additional grant.) 
£15 to a Committee consisting of the President and Mr. Robert 
Russell, p.T.c.D., towards making Mechanical Appliances for the 
Graphic Construction of Quadratic, Cubic, and Quartic Curves. 
The following Resolution was moved by the Right Rev. Dr. 
Reeves, Bishop of Down and Connor, seconded by Mr. David R. Pigot, 
and adopted : — 
"That the Academy desires to place on record its deep sense of 
the great loss which it has sustained by the decease of Sir Robert 
Kane, ll.d., r.n.s., who had been for over fifty-eight years one of its 
Members, during which he had taken a very active part in the direc- 
tion of its affairs as Member and Secretary of its Council, and for five 
years as its President." 
" The Academy tenders to the members of his family its sincerest 
sympathy in their bereavement." 
It was moved by Sir Robert Ball and seconded by Dr. Prazer — 
' ' That the Academy, as a mark of respect to the memory of Sir 
Robert Kane, now adjourn ;" 
which being carried, the Academy then adjourned. 
Satfedat, Maech 15, 1890. 
(Stated Meeting.) 
Rev. De. HAUGHTOisr, p.e.s.. President, in the Chair. 
Rev. Robert Conlan signed the Roll, and was admitted a Member 
of the Academy. 
The Ballot was then opened for the Election of President and 
Council for the ensuing year. 
Mr. J. R. Garstin and Mr, J. F. Lombard were appointed Scruti- 
neers. 
The Ballot was also opened for the Election of an Honorary 
'Member. 
Dr. Davy and Professor O'Reilly were appointed Scrutineers. 
