Minutes of Proceedings. 
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SaTUEDAY, ISTOYEMBER 29, 1890. 
(Stated Meeting.) 
Eev. De. Haughton, E.E.S., President, in the Chair, 
The Ballot was opened for the election of Two Members of Council, 
and Mr. B. "Williamson, f.e.s., and Mr. "W. E. Molloy were appointed 
Scrutineers. 
The following letter from Miss Galbraith was read : — 
" 46, Lansdowne-eoad. 
Sir, — "Will you kindly oiSer to the Eoyal Irish Academy the 
grateful thanks of my brothers, sisters, and myself, for the Eesolution 
passed by them on the 10th inst. 
** "We shall cherish it among the memorials of our dear father. 
" Yours faithfully, 
Hannah Galbeaith, 
Nov. nth:' 
The following Eesolution was proposed by Mr. J. E. Garstin, d.l., 
seconded by Dr. F. A. Tarleton, f.t.c.d., and unanimously adopted: — 
" That the Eoyal Irish Academy desires to place on record its 
sense of the loss it has sustained by the death of the Hon. John 
O'Hagan, m.a., who was a Member of the Academy since 1866, served 
on its Council, and at the time of his decease was the senior Vice- 
President of the Academy. 
That a copy of this Eesolution be sent to the Members of his 
family, with an expression of the sympathy of the Academy with 
their sorrow." 
By-Law 6, chapter ix., having been suspended, visitors were 
admitted. 
Mr. George Coffey, b.e., read a Paper " On the Decorative Treat- 
ment of the Inscribed Figures in the Chamber of the Tumulus at !N'ew 
Grange, illustrated by a series of twenty photographs thereof." 
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