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The Secretary of the Council brought up a draft of a 

 Memorial to His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, praying 

 the Government to make a special grant of £400 to the 

 Academy, for the purchase of the Betham collection of Irish 

 Manuscripts. 



On the recommendation of the Council, 



It was resolved, — That the sum of £100 be allocated 

 out of the funds of the Academy, towards the purchase of the 

 Betham MSS. 



The Treasurer having opened a list, the sum of £129 9s. 

 was immediately subscribed by Members of the Academy 

 towards the same purpose. 



Richard Griffith, Esq., on the part of the Shannon Com- 

 missioners, presented a collection of Antiquities lately found 

 in that river. 



Rev. John Connell presented a skull of a very peculiar 

 shape, and a number of fragments of encaustic tiles found in 

 the excavations lately made in the avenue leading from the 

 Royal Hospital towards Kilmainham. 



William R. Wilde, Esq., presented a remarkably round 

 skull found in a tumulus with an urn, near Dunamaes, and also 

 a skull discovered at Kilmainham with the iron weapons lately 

 presented to the Academy by the Governors of the Royal 

 Hospital. 



Mr. George Yeates presented his Meteorological Journal, 

 commencing 1st January, and ending 3lst December, 1847.* 



William R. Wilde, Esq., exhibited, by permission of Mrs. 

 Beauchamp Newton, a cinerary urn found in the county 



* See Appendix, No. I. 

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