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Monpay, JUNE 121TH, 1854. 
HUMPHREY LLOYD, D.D., Vice-Presipent, 
in the Chair. 
Ir was Resolved, on the recommendation of the Council, 
that the sum of £80 be granted for the purchase of Mr. 
Richard Murray’s collection of Irish antiquities. 
Mr. Charles Haliday read a paper on the ancient name of 
the city of Dublin. 
Rev. Charles Graves, D. D., read the following letter from 
Charles Mac Donnell, Esq., relative to the MSS. of the cele- 
brated John Colgan, preserved at St. Isidore’s, Rome :— 
«¢ The catalogue from which I copied the following is in the 
archives of the Irish Franciscan Convent of St. Isidore, Rome. 
There are several copies of it there. 
«Tt will throw some light upon the subject of Colgan’s 
collection of Irish MSS.., some of which are in the Burgundian 
Library, some at St. Isidore’s ; but many of which are missing, 
and, probably, irrecoverably lost. The French soldiers, in the 
time of Napoleon I., used the Convent of St. Isidore for a long 
period as barracks. Let ushope, however faintly, that some frag- 
ments of this collection may have been transferred, at that time, 
to other libraries, for the second volume of the autograph exem- 
plar of the Four Masters, formerly at St. Isidore’s, is now in 
the Barberini Library, and nobody can tell when or how it 
came there. The friars have the first volume still. 
« There is still another chance. Several years ago, but sub- 
sequent to the erection of the Belgian kingdom, a number of 
printed books that had belonged to the Irish Franciscans of 
Louvain, were brought from Belgium by an Trish friar of that 
