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Ogham monuments, and to whom belongs the credit of having 

 kept the attention of Irish antiquaries fixed on their im- 

 portance, should not have published before now the collec- 

 tion of inscriptions of which he has long been in possession ; 

 accompanying each sketch with an exact description of the 

 nature of the monoment, its locality, and the circumstances at- 

 tending its discovery. Such an assemblage of facts would have 

 been of the utmost value, as presenting the decipherer with 

 the materials necessary for him to work on. Mr, Graves 

 stated, at the same time, that he did not concur in the read- 

 ings and translations of Ogham inscriptions given in Mr. 

 Windele's valuable work entitled " Notices of Cork" Refer- 

 ence was made to one inscription in particular, given in page 

 128 of that work, in the deciphering of which Sir William Be- 

 tham and the Rev. Matthew Horgan have committed the error 

 of reading the line of characters from the top of the stone 

 downwards, instead of in the opposite direction. The stone ac- 

 tually bears a name which is found on another monument in 

 the county of Cork. 



In conclusion, Mr. Graves stated that he would postpone 

 to another occasion the reading of that part of his paper 

 which refers to the origin of the Ogham character, and the 

 relation which it bears to secret alphabets used in other 

 countries. 



June 12, 1848. 



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



in the Chair. 



The President read a paper " On certain questions con- 

 nected with the Reduction of Magnetical and Meteorological 

 Observations." 



It is well known that the mean value of any magnetical 



