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DONATIONS. 



Observations on the Evidence taken before the Committee 

 of the House of Commons, on the Record Commission in 183G, 

 and the Report so far as it refers to the Irish Records. By 

 Sir William Betham, Ulster King of Arms, &c. &c. Pre- 

 sented by the Author. 



An Oration on the Important Advantages derivable from 

 Philosophical Instritction. By Henry W. Dewhurst, Esq. 

 Presented by the Author. 



A Practical Treatise on the Management and Diseases of 

 Children. By Richard T. Evanson, M. D. Presented by 

 the Author. 



The following is the extract from the letter of the Baron 

 de Donop to Sir William Betham, referred to in the last 

 number of the Proceedings : 



*' Our literati in Germany have been of late much 

 excited and interested by the alleged discovery of the MS. 

 Translation of the History of the Phoenicians, by Philo 

 Biblius, now printing at Bremen. It is generally considered 

 a modern fabrication ; but at the same time it is not easy 

 to say by whom. Time will, at no very distant period, de- 

 cide the question, as upwards of 100 pages of the Greek 

 text have been already printed. 



" For myself, I am inclined to think it genuine. A close 

 and careful examination of a portion which has appeared at 

 Hanover, has convinced me that no fabricator could have 

 formed that work, unless he had been profoundly acquainted 

 with the writings of Vallancey, O'Connor, your own works, 

 and those of all others who have asserted the identity of 

 the Phoenician Punic language with that of Ireland ; for it is 

 that tongue which is recognized in all the names, almost 

 without exception, which in the mouth of Sanconiathon 

 ought to be Phoenician. 



