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May 87H, 1854. 
LIEUT.-COL. LARCOM, F.R.S., Vicrt-Presipent, 
in the Chair. 
Parke Nevi.ue, Ese., was elected a Member of the Aca- 
demy. 
Rey. Dr. Todd read the following Paper, by the Rev. J. 
G. Cumming, on the inscribed stones in the Isle of Man, of 
which casts have been purchased for the Museum :— 
‘<The Danes and Norwegians occupied the Isle of Man from 
the beginning of the tenth to the latter part of the thirteenth 
century. 
‘Some of the most interesting memorials which they have 
left behind them are about thirty different Runic monuments, 
the best of which are included in the present series, of which 
the dates range from the beginning of the eleventh to the 
end of the twelfth century. From the close connexion at that 
time existing between the Scandinavians in Ireland and those 
in Man, we may naturally expect to meet with some general 
resemblance between the Manx and Irish crosses. Yet the 
Manx Runic cross-makers appear to have largely exercised 
their own fertile genius in the delineation of those now under 
consideration. This is to be noticed more particularly in the 
conyersion of the cable-work, or Runic knot, as it has been 
called, into interlacing figures of dragons, or some monstrous 
scale-covered animals. There is also some resemblance between 
the Manx crosses and those found in the Scottish Lowlands, 
and Eastern Scottish Highlands. 
«‘ The crosses and tombstones in Iona are most likely later 
than these, and may in part have been borrowed from them. 
Considering the very close connexion between Iona and Man, 
they forming parts of the same bishopric, from A. D. 1100 to 
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