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send, Esq., Alexander Taylor, M.D., and George Yeates, 
Esq., were elected Members. 
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Lieutenant-Colonel Jones (R. E.), on the part of the 
Shannon Commissioners, presented to the Museum a collection 
of ancient bronze weapons, ornaments, and other articles, 
found recently in the excavations made in the bed of the 
Shannon. And he offered, on the part of the Commission, to 
assist the Committee of Antiquities in conducting any anti- 
quarian researches they might propose in the neighbourhood 
of that river. Whereupon it was 
Resotvep,—That the Committee of Antiquities be re- 
quested to put themselves in communication with the Shannon 
Commissioners, with reference to their obliging proposal. 
John Anster, LL, D., read the conclusion of the paper by 
the Rey. James Wills, ‘‘ On Dugald Stewart’s Explanation of 
certain Processes in the Human Understanding.” 
Mr. Wills commenced by referring to his former paper, 
in which he had endeavoured to rectify the elementary prin- 
ciple, from which he considered the true theory of the in- 
tellectual powers as being deducible. As in that. paper he had 
explained the origin and formation of those fixed associations 
which were the results of habit; so in the present paper it 
was his purpose to deduce from the same primary law the 
class of unfixed and accidental associations. 
Before entering upon this statement, the Author dwelt at 
some length on the nature of the method by which he had 
arrived at his results. ‘This he described as being, in the 
strictest sense, a method of observation. He had, he said, 
excluded all consideration of the metaphysical writers; and 
though he might coincide with many of their opinions, he 
would disclaim any authority, or ground of inference, but the 
simplest and most scrupulous investigation of the facts, which 
he would endeavour so to exemplify as to convey his results 
