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Members; and secondly, to divide them into sections corresponding 
to the threefold objects of the Academy, so that the respective 
branches of Science, Polite Literature, and Antiquities, may be 
fairly represented among the Honorary Members. 
During the past year an opportunity presented itself, from the 
visit of an intelligent Danish antiquary to this city, of opening a 
communication between the Academy and the Royal Museum of 
Northern Antiquities of Copenhagen, from which we may reasonably 
expect the most beneficial consequences, From the connexion 
which subsisted in ancient times between the Norsemen and this 
country, a comparison of Scandinavian and Irish antiquities has long 
been a great desideratum. The Academy, therefore, in accordance 
with the recommendation of Council, requested Mr. Worsaae to be 
the bearer of some drawings of the objects which seemed most 
likely to be interesting to Northern antiquarians in our Collection, 
to be presented, in the name of the Academy, to the Royal Museum 
of Copenhagen. They selected also, for the same purpose, under 
the superintendence of the Committee of Antiquities, a few dupli- 
cates from the Museum, which, it is hoped, may be regarded at 
Copenhagen as worthy of a place in the Royal Museum. They will, 
at all events, serve as a testimony of our good-will, and as an ex- 
pression of our desire to establish a friendly intercourse between 
the learned men of two countries, whose early history was once so 
closely and so singularly united. 
During the past year the Academy has to lament the death of 
the following Members : 
Abraham Palmer, Esq.,. . . . . elected 1838, 
George Digges La Touche, Esq.,. .- <5 E838; 
Goddard Richards, Esq., . . - . » 1843. 
Maxwell M‘Master, Esq., . . . . » 1844, 
The death of George Downes, Esq., also occurred during the year. 
. Bir died on Sunday, August 23, 1846 ; and although, from the state 
4 A ei Asitesoy; the Council cannot refrain from paying this brief 
tribute to his memory. His attainments in Polite Literature were 
of a high order; and his extensive knowledge of the northern lan- 
