PROCEEDINGS 



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THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. 



1838. No. 11. 



April 9. 

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



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy. 



Simeon Hardy, Esq., Robert Adams, Esq., Captain 

 John Pitt Kennedy, George Digges Latouche, Esq., Jacob 

 Owens, Esq., Charles T. Webber, Esq., Henry Barry, Esq., 

 The Hon. James King, Elliot Warburton, Esq., George 

 Downes, Esq., The Venerable the Archdeacon of Raphoe. 



Sir William Betham read a letter from Dr. Hibbert 

 Ware, describing a cromlech near Bombay, in India. The 

 following are extracts : — 



" My chief motive for sending you two sketches of crom- 

 lechs, recently discovered by my son, Mr. William Hibbert 

 Ware, Assistant Surgeon, 2nd Foot, or Queen's Royal, in 

 the East Indies, has a reference as much to the interest 

 which such a distant locality attaches to this very early spe- 

 cies of monument, as to the apparent use to which it is al- 

 leged to have been subservient. 



'* In the admirable history of Ireland by Mr. Thomas 

 Moore, this interesting writer, while treating of cromlechs, 

 has adverted to the remarkable circumstance recorded in 

 Maundrel's Travels, that a monument of this description was 



