PROCEEDINGS 
OF 
THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. 
1846. No. 55. 
June 8th. 
REV. HUMPHREY LLOYD, D.D., President, in the 
Chair. 
Thomas John Beasly, Esq., Thomas Perey Boyd, Esq., 
and Rey. Robert J. M‘Ghee, were elected Members of the 
Academy. 
__ The President announced to the Academy, that Arthur R, 
Nugent, Esq., M. R.I. A., on the part of the Rev. Francis 
Brownlow, had deposited the ancient MS. called the Book 
of Armagh, in the Museum of the Academy, and that he had 
given to Mr. Nugent the following receipt for the same, sub- 
ject to the approval of the Academy : 
** Royal Irish Academy, 
‘¢ Dublin, 4th June, 1846. 
«¢ Arthur R. Nugent, Esq., M. R. I. A., has this day de- 
‘posited in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy, on the 
. part of the Rev, Francis Brownlow, that ancient Irish MS. 
ealled the Book of Armagh, the property of the said Rev. 
Francis Brownlow, with the understanding that the Academy 
will take the same care of the said book that they do of the 
best article in their Museum; and that the Academy will at 
_ any time return the said book to the said Rey. Francis Brown- 
