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their investigation will form an important accessary to the 

 history of the Indo-European race, and also that such an 

 investigation will probably destroy the popular theories of 

 their having been temples and altars of the Druids. 



March 16. (Stated Meeting.) 



SIR Wm. R. HAMILTON, A.M., President, in the Chair. 



This being the day appointed by Charter for the annual 

 election, the following Officers and Members of Council were 

 chosen for the ensuing year : 



President — Professor Sir Wm . Rowan Hamilton, A. M. 



Treasurer — Thomas Herbert Orpen, M. D. 



Secretary — Joseph Henderson Singer, D.D. 



Secretary to Council — Rev. Humphrey Lloyd, A. M. 



Secretarylqf Foreign Correspondence — Sir Wm. Betham. 



Librarian — Rev. William Hamilton Drummond. 



Committee of Science, 



Rev. Franc Sadleir, D. D. Provost of Trinity College ; 

 Rev. Humphrey Lloyd, A.M. ; James Apjohn, M. D. ; James 

 Mac CuUagh, Esq. A. M. ; William Stokes,: M. D. ; Rev. 

 William Digby Sadleir, A. M. ; Robert Ball, Esq. 



Committee of Polite Literature, 



His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin; Rev. Joseph H. 

 Singer, D. D. ; Andrew Carmichael, Esq. ; Samuel Litton, 

 M. p. ; Rev. W^illiam H. Drummond ; Rev. Charles Richard 

 Elrington, D. D. ; Rev. Charles William Wall, D. D. 



Committee of Antiquities. 



Thomas Herbert Orpen, M. D. ; Sir William Betham ; 

 George Petrie, Esq. ; Rev. Caesar Otway, A. B. ; the Very 



