November 30. (Stated Meeting.) 



Rev. B. LLOYD, D. D., Provost, T. C. D., President, 

 in the Chair. 



William E. Bolton, Esq. and Thomas F. Bergin, Esq. 

 were elected Members of the Academy. 



Sir William Betham exhibited to the Academy a specimen 

 of the ancient brazen ring money, found in the county of 

 Monaghan,* and also a piece of cast iron, found with many 

 others, in boxes, on board a vessel wrecked on the coast of 

 Cork last summer. This vessel was bound to Africa, where 

 it is stated the pieces in question pass for money. They 

 are so similar in shape and size to the ancient specimens, 

 that there can be no reasonable doubt of the identity of 

 their uses ; and thus the theory advanced in the paper re- 

 ferred to is strongly confirmed. 



Sir William Betham also read an extract of a letter from 

 a friend, in which it was stated, that gold rings, exactly 

 formed like those found in the Irish bogs, — that is, of gold 

 wire turned into the form of rings, but not united at the 

 ends, — pass current at this moment as money in Nubia and 

 Sennaar. 



The Dean of St. Patrick's exhibited two bronze spe- 

 cimens of the first mentioned articles found in Italy, one of 

 which was encrusted with crystals of carbonate of lime. 



The following papers were read : 



1. "On the Affinity of the Hiberno-Celtic and Phoe- 

 nician Languages." By Sir WiUiam Betham, M. R. I. A., 

 Secretary of Foreign Correspondence. 



In this paper the author undertakes to prove that the 

 names of the divinities, heroes, and nymphs of the Greeks 

 and Romans, are significant in the Hiberno-Celtic language ; 



• See paper read 23rd May and 27th June, page 12. 



