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-Resotven,—That the thanks of the Academy be given to 
Mr. Nugent, 
The Secretary announced to the meeting, that the Com- 
missioners for the Improvement of the Shannon had for- 
warded a further donation of antiquities found in the bed of 
that river to the Museum; together with a section and plans’ 
of the small tower at Clonmacnoise. 
Reso_vep,—That the thanks of the Academy be given 
to the Commissioners. 
Dr. Allman exhibited a remarkable form of Saxifraga 
Leucanthemifolia, presenting the retrograde metamorphosis — 
of flowers into bulbs, which were thickly scattered over the 
inflorescence, occupying the position of the leafy tufts de- 
scribed by Robert Brown in his Saxifraga Foliosa. 
Rey. Samuel Butcher read a paper by the Rev. Edward 
Hincks, D. D., ‘* On Persepolitan Writing.” 
In this paper various rectifications of the received mode 
of reading the first kind of Persepolitan writing were pro- 
posed; and an alphabet, or rather a combined alphabet and 
syllabary for the second was given, differing in some important 
respects from that of Westergaard. 
Academy, are all human, and consist of the ribs, vertebrae, and the ends of 
the long bones, together with pieces of the skull, and some joints of the fingers 
of a full-grown person, and also several bones of a very young child, none of 
which had been subject to the action of fire. But among the parcel forwarded 
to me by Mr. Nugent, are several fragments of incinerated human bones. 
Either these latter were portions of the same bodies burned, or they belonged 
to an individual sacrificed to the manes of the person whose grave this was ; 
and I am inclined to think the latter is the more probable, from the circum- 
stances in which similar remains have been discovered in other localities. 
There were no urns, weapons, or ornaments of any description discovered in 
connexion with this tumulus; but Mr. Nugent states, that in the field where 
it was opened, small stone chambers, or kistvaens, have at various times 
been dug up, and in one of these a long, flat, and narrow skull was some time 
since discovered.” W. R. W. 
