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Monpay, Fepruary 23rp, 1852. 
THOMAS ROMNEY ROBINSON, D.D., Presipent, 
in the Chair. 
On the recommendation of the Council, it was Resolved :— 
I. That the Academy do authorize the payment of the 
rent of the new Academy House for the half-year commencing 
29th September, 1851. 
II. That the Academy do authorize the payment of the 
sum of £100 to the Dawson-street Club, for fixtures in the 
new Academy House. 
III. That the Academy do take the necessary steps to 
dispose of its existing interest in the lease of the house which 
it now occupies. 
It was also Resolved :— 
That the President, Council, and Officers of the Academy 
be requested to draw up an Address to His Excellency the 
Lord Lieutenant, expressing the grateful sense entertained by 
the Academy of the important benefits which he has conferred 
upon them. 
The Rev. Samuel Butcher, D. D., read a Paper by the Rev. 
Francis Crawford, on the affinity of Hebrew to the Celtic dia- 
~ lects. The author, in a former communication to the Aca- 
demy, whilst considering merely the formative elements, had 
- pointed out some modes of stem-formation common to both. 
In the present paper he proposes to consider the analogies af- 
forded by the radical parts of the words, and for this purpose 
adduces a list of upwards of five hundred Hebrew words, 
which he considers intimately related to a corresponding num- 
ber of words in Celtic. Of this list the great majority appear 
to him so clearly identical with their Celtic equivalents, that 
he considers their. relationship almost obvious at a glance; 
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