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process still for the conversion of fusel oil into valerianic acid 
is that by potash, originally given by Dumas and Stass.” 
On the part of Richard Caulfield, Esq., the Secretary ex- 
hibited an inscription on a silver ring found in the county 
Galway: the letters are as follows: 
es AVENMGAONEAIME. 
He also presented, on the part of the same gentleman, 
a lithograph representing a silver buckle, and other or na~ 
ments, in the possession of Thomas Ronayne Sarsfield, Esq. ; 
and a rubbing from a stone in the church of Mallow, with the 
following inscription: ‘ Hic jacet Jacobus filius Wilhelme de 
Barry, in temporalibus dominus Kilmaclenyn.” 
In the absence of Dr. Stokes, Dr. Petrie presented, from 
Rey. William Demoleyns, to the Museum, a large bronze ves- 
sel, found in the lands of Lahern, in the parish of Killorglan, 
in the county of Kerry, in 1849. 
Rey. Charles Graves, on the part of Sir Robert Gore 
Booth, M. P., presented an ancient wooden crucifix, found in 
a font in the demesne of Lissadell, County Sligo. 
January 13, 1851. 
JOHN ANSTER, LL. D., VicrE-PRESIDENT, 
in the Chair. 
Sin Francis Waskett Myers, Bart.; Rev. Orlando Dobbin, 
LL.D.; Samuel Gordon, M.D.; Daniel Griffin, M. D.; Ewing 
Whittle, M. D.; St. George Williams, M.D.; Robert Clayton 
Browne; James Gibson; Henry Hennessy ; Andrew John 
Maley ; and William Harvey Pim, Esquires, were elected 
Members of the Academy. 
