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Royal Irish Academy, 
Monday, June 23, 1890. 
J. K. Ingram, ll.d., s.f.t.c.d., Yice-President, in the Chair. 
Rev. Eowland Scriven, m.a., signed the EoU, and was admitted a 
Member of the Academy. 
Professor J. P. O'Eeilly read a Paper On the Occurrence 
of Serpentine in the Eocks of Eray Head." 
Professor E. Williamson, f.e.s., f.t.c.d., read a Paper On 
Curvilinear Co-ordinates." 
The Secretary read for Mr. W. Percy Sladen a Eeport " On some 
Echinoderms from the South-West Coast of Ireland." 
Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks were voted 
to the Donors. 
The following grants, recommended by the Council, were approved 
of by the Academy : — 
£20 to Messrs. E. Patterson and E. Lloyd Praeger to assist them 
in their Eesearches into the Vertebrate Portion of the Pauna of Ulster. 
£10 to Mr. J. P. X. King to assist him in his Investigations into 
the Keuropterous Pauna of the North of Ireland. 
£100 to a Committee, consisting of Prof. Cunningham, m.d., Eev. 
Dr. Haughton, f.e.s., and Prof. Haddon, m.a., to assist in the pur- 
chase of Anthropometrical Instruments. 
Eead Letter to the Council from Sir "West Eidgeway, June 13, 
1890, enclosing a Draft Agreement for transferring the Museum 
of the Academy to the Museum of Science and Art, Dublin, which 
Agreement had been approved of by the Council. 
"We the Eoyal Irish Academy, incorporated by Eoyal Charter, 
considering that it has been deemed advisable for increasing the 
utility of the Museum, and securing both its future preservation and 
enlargement as a IsTational Collection, to transfer and convey to the 
