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money was paid accordingly, and the medal was delivered. 
Mr. Petrie was then permitted to take away the manuscript, 
to prepare it for the Press; but he never returned it to the 
Council for publication, though frequently urged to do so. 
In the year 1840, eight years after the delivery and pay- 
ment of this medal and prize, myself and other members of 
the Academy called upon the Council to account why this 
Essay, which had excited so much interest, had not as yet 
appeared in the Transactions. In reply, we were assured 
that it then was, or very shortly would be, in the Press. 
“In July, 1844, we again inquired when the Essay was 
to appear, and were told it would be published by the Ist 
January, 1845. I, therefore, gave notice that I would move 
at the next meeting of the Academy for certain returns 
respecting the proceedings of the Council. On the 30th 
November these returns were laid on the table of the Aca- 
demy, in compliance with my notice, without motion. By 
these returns it appears that the Council had permitted 
Mr. Petrie to enlarge his Essay (which, when read and 
adjudged, consisted of about fifty pages), so much as to 
occupy an entire volume of the Transactions (about 500 
pages), and had expended £144 in wood-cut engravings, to 
illustrate it. They also appointed a committee to confer 
with Mr. Petrie (himself a member of Council), relative to 
the publication of his Essay on the Round Towers, who, on 
the 29th June, 1840, reported the following proposition 
from Mr. Petrie : 
“© © 99nd June, 1840 
*¢T propose to supply the Academy with 400 or 450 
copies of my Essay on the Round Towers, at thirty shillings 
per copy, printed in the form of the Transactions. 
“« « Signed, Georce Perris.’ 
And the Committee recommended the Council to adopt the 
above proposal, and to request Mr. Petrie to send the work 
to Press immediately. 
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