That we beg leave to offer our sincere condolence and 

 sympathy to his family, under an affliction so deplorable and 

 irreparable. 



That we shall ever cherish, with sentiments of the most 

 poignant regret, the memory of one, to whose zeal and muni- 

 ficence this Academy especially is so deeply indebted. 



That, as an expression (however feeble and inadequate) of 

 our sorrow for his memory, the Academy do now adjourn, with- 

 out proceeding to transact any of the ordinary business of this 

 Meetinsr. 



November 30th, 1847. — (Stated Meeting.) 

 REV. HUMPHREY LLOYD, D. D., President, 



in the Chair. 



The Rev. Samuel Haughton was elected a Member of the 

 Committee of Science; and Eaton Hodgkinson, Esq., F. R.S., 

 was elected a Member of the Academy. 



The Council having recommended the Academy to sanc- 

 tion an exchange of antiquities proposed by Mr. Staunton, of 

 Longbridge, near Warwick, 



It was Resolved, — That the brass seal in the Museum 

 of the Academy, with the legend, " Sigillum peculiaris Juris- 

 dictionis de F Fysshers Itchyngton," be given to Mr. Staun- 

 ton in exchange for a seal made of slate, having the legend 

 •' Sigillum diii iohis epriimirensis." 



Read, — The following translation of a letter from the 

 Royal Commission for the Preservation of Antiquities, dated 

 Copenhagen, June 26, 1847 : 



" Mr. J. J. A. Worsaae, well known by his writings and 

 antiquarian researches, both in his own country and in the 



