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concluded by giving a description of the rites and ceremo- 

 nies used in the worship of Hercules at Gadcs, intimating 

 that they denoted a purer mode of religious culture than 

 generally obtained in the heathen world. 



DONATIONS. 



Notes on the United States of North America in 1838, 

 1839, 1840. 3 Vols. By George Combe, Esq.,Hon. M.R.I.A., 

 &c. Presented by the Author. 



The Silurian System. By William H. Fitton, Esq. 

 Presented by the Author. 



Dublin Metropolitan Police Returns of Persons taken into 

 Custody in 1840. Presented by the Commissioners. 



Ordnance Survey of the County of Gahmy, in 139 sheets. 

 Presented by his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant. 



Verhandclingen van het Bataafsch Genootschap der Proe- 

 fondervindelyhe Wysbegeerte te Rotterdam. Vols. I.— XII., 

 and New Series, Vols. I.— VIII. Part I. 



A Collection of Temperance Medals. Engraved by J. C 

 Pavkes. Presented by the Artist. 



June 28. 

 SIR Wm. R. HAMILTON, LL.D., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Mallet read a paper " On a new Method of raising 

 Ships of War out of Water for the Purpose of Repair." 



Although the author conceived that the objects of the 

 Royal Irish Academy were rather to investigate principles 

 than to apply them in detail, still as any application of these, 

 which proposes to add to our naval power, is of importance, 

 and as on a like subject the Royal Society conferred on 

 Sir R. Seppings their highest reward for his application of 

 diagonal framing to ships, he did not deem it altogether out 

 of place to bring his method of raising ships out of water be- 



