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Leighlin and Ferns, were presented by Joseph Faviere E]- 
rington, Esq. 
The Rev. Samuel Haughton read a paper entitled ‘ Theo- 
retical Considerations respecting the original Fluidity of the 
Earth and some other Planets, deduced from their observed 
Figures.” 
Dr. Kennedy Baillie, being called upon by the President 
to read his Memoir on two ancient sculptures* preserved in 
the Manuscript Room of the Library of the University, com- 
menced with dividing his subject into the Philological and 
Archzological; the first including notices respecting the epi- 
graphs; the second, relative to the type of ancient art, ac- 
cording to which the anaglyphs were elaborated. 
Beginning with the former, he explained, in the first 
place, the use of the lineole over the letters KA in the bust of 
Thelymitres: secondly, the true meaning of “ Thelymitres,” 
assigning his reasons for considering it in a quite different sense 
from that entertained by Smith: thirdly, the signification of the 
epithet ¢iAavdpoc, which he proved to have been, in the pre- 
sent case, one of honour. 
His fourth subject of investigation were the interesting 
details suggested by 6 Ooéac in the second line, as to the rela- 
tions which subsisted between the Operrijpec and the Openrol, 
as also the full meaning of the offices termed Operrfjo.a. This 
inquiry was extended to the relations which obtained between 
the tutelary deities, leocrarfp.or, and individuals respectively 
under their guardianship, their Operrof, the acknowledgment 
of which, in the ritual of the ancient Greeks, was the offering 
of the DAdxapoe Operripog. The universal observance of 
* The reader is referred to the ‘* Proceedings of the Academy,” of the 
25th January, 1841, for important notices respecting these Anaglyphs, sub- 
mitted by the Rev. J. H. Todd, D. D., now S. F. T. C.D., as preliminary to 
those now presented. 
