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are: 1. ‘Co augment the sensibility of the instrument, and to 
render it available for the registry of light gales, no less than 
high winds; and 2. To diminish, by means of the inertia of 
the wheel, the oscillatory movement of the registering pencil, 
occasioned by the unsteady action of the wind. 
Mr. Petrie exhibited several ancient bells—the bell of St. 
Cuanna, of the county Clare, and the bell of St. Ruadhan, of 
Lorha, and some others. He also exhibited some bells sup- 
posed to be of pagan age. 
The thanks of the Academy were given to Mr. Cooke 
for permitting the Bearnan Cullain to be exhibited to the 
Academy. 
DONATIONS. 
An ancient Bronze Bit and Flint Knife, part of the collec- 
tion of the late John Echlin, Esq. Presented by Miss Echlin, 
July 20. (Extraordinary Meeting.) 
REV. HUMPHREY LLOYD, President, in the Chair. 
RESOLVED, on the recommendation of the Council,—That 
a congratulatory Address be presented to His Excellency the 
Lord Lieutenant. 
Reso_vep,—That the President and Secretaries (or offi- 
cers) be a Sub-Committee to prepare a draft of an Address, 
which, having been agreed to by the Sub-Committee, was 
presented to the Meeting, whereupon 
Ir was Resotvep,—That the Address now presented be 
adopted, and that the President shall summon the Academy, 
as soon as His Excellency’s pleasure is declared, as to the 
time when it would be convenient to him to receive the 
Address. 
