Madam, - 2005 will be the bicentenary of the birth of Ireland's greatest mathematician and theoretical physicist, William Rowan Hamilton.
The Tánaiste has agreed to designate it as "Hamilton Year 2005: Celebrating Irish Science". Anyone planning events related to the bicentenary is invited to contact the Royal Irish Academy's Hamilton Bicentennial Committee for inclusion in its calendar of events for the year. - Yours, etc.,
Prof LUKE O'C DRURY, Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2.