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May 13th, 1850. 



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

 in the Chair. 



Hugh Carlisle, Esq., M. D., was elected a member of the 

 Academy. 



A letter was read from Charles Leslie, Esq., Castle Les- 

 lie, county Monaghan, accompanyuig a wooden implement 

 which had been discovered in a bog by some men cutting 

 turf, and Avhich Mr. Leslie presented to the Academy. 



^ Sir William Betham read a notice from a Manuscript in 

 the British Museum, in the hand\vriting of Sir James Ware, 

 in which it was stated that Dr. John Leslie, Bishop of Ra- 

 phoe, when building an episcopal palace there, pulled down a 

 round tower or pyramid, wliich stood at Raphoe, and disco- 

 vered the bones of a man beneath it. Sir William observed, 

 that the letter demonstrated the existence of a round tower 

 formerly at Ra^ihoe. He had not been aware of that fact 

 before, and probably many more round towers formerly existed 

 in the country than were generally supposed. 



Rev. Dr. Todd exhibited a curious piece of sculptm-e ia 

 white marble, being a representation of the crucifixion. He 

 had pm'chased it from a man who informed him that it had 

 for many years been in the possession of a family named 

 Meehan, in the county of Kildare, and that it had been found 

 in a churchyard in the town of Kddare. It evidently was of 

 very considerable antiquity, probably of the thirteenth cen- 

 tury. 



Dr. Todd also exhibited a similar sculpture, pux-chased 



