Minutes of Proceedings. 
47 
The Contributors of Papers during the year were : — Eev. Dr. 
Haughton, p.e.s., President ; Sir E. S. Ball, f.r.s. ; V. Ball, r.E.s. ; 
J. E. CuUum; "W. Doberck, ph.d.; G. P. EitzGerald, f.r.s. ; ^Y. Prazer, 
F.R. C.S.I. ; Eight Eev. P)r. Graves, f.e.s. ; G. H. Kinahan, f.e.g.s.i. ; 
Eev. H. W. Lett, m.a. ; "W. S. M'Cay, f.t.c.d. ; Eev. Dr. Maha%, 
F.T.c.D. ; J. C. O'Meagher ; J. P. O'Eeilly, c.e. ; W. Kitchen Parker, 
F.n.s. ; T. Preston, m.a. ; "W. J. Sollas, f.h.s. ; S. A. Stewart ; Sir W. 
Thomson, f.e.s. ; B. C. A. Windle, m.d. ; E. Perceval Wright, m.d. ; 
C. G. Young, M.D. 
The following Grants in aid of the Preparation of Scientific Eeports 
have been sanctioned by the Academy : — 
£40 to Professor G. E. EitzGerald, f.e.s., and Mr. E. Cullum, to 
assist them in carrying on a Series of Magnetic Observations at 
Valentia. 
£15 to Mr. S. A. Stewart and Mr. E. L. Praeger, for an Investiga- 
tion of the Elowering Plants and Characese of the Mourne Mountain 
Eange. 
£10 to Mr. Y. Ball, f.e.s., to assist him in completing his Eeport 
on the Mineral and Yegetable Substances used as Drugs in India 
during the Middle of the 16th Century. 
£20 to Professor M. Hartog, ph.d., to enable him to carry on his 
researches into the Physical Structure of Protoplasm, 
£15 to Mr. G. Y. Dixon, m.a., and Mr. A. E. Dixon, to enable them 
to investigate the Marine Invertebrate Eauna of the neighbourhood of 
Dublin. 
£85 to Sir Eobert Ball, f.e.s., for a Star Photograph Measuring 
Apparatus. 
£15 to a committee consisting of the President and Mr. Eobert 
Eussell, F.T.c.D., towards making mechanical appliances for the Graphic 
Construction of Quadratic, Cubic, and Quartic Curves. 
[Appended to this Eeport is given a list of the Grants in aid of 
Scientific Ee search voted by the Academy from June, 1879, up to 
the present date.] 
In the Library we have received by donation an interesting set of 
drawings of Irish marble work of the last century. A valuable and 
unique series of delineations of ancient edifices in Ireland has also 
