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Committee of Antiquities. 
George Petrie, LL.D.; Rev. James H. Todd, D.D.; 
J. Huband Smith, Esq., A. M.; Samuel Ferguson, Esq.; 
Aquilla Smith, M.D.; Earl of Dunraven; T. A. Larcom, 
Ksq., R. E. 
The President, under his hand and seal, nominated the 
following Vice-Presidents for the current year : 
John Anster, LL. D.; James Apjohn, M.D.; Rev. Hum-. 
_phrey Lloyd, D. D.; Thomas A. Larcom, Esq., R. E. 
Ir was Resovep,—That the Council be empowered to 
prepare an Address to the Earl of Eglinton, Lord Lieutenant, 
and that the Academy be summoned on the day appointed by 
His Excellency, to wait upon him with the Address. 
On the part of the Commissioners of the Board of Public 
Works, Mr. W. T. Mulvany. presented three thin gold plates, 
which had been recently found in the bed ofa tributary of the 
river Erne, running between Ballina and Crossdoney, in the 
townland of Belville, county of Cavan. 
Dr. Petrie moved that the warmest thanks of the Academy 
be given to the Board of Works for this interesting donation, 
observing, that they were, as specimens, not merely new to 
us, but new, he believed, to every other collection of gold 
antiquities. 
Dr. Petrie presented to the Museum a silver coin, on the 
part of Mr. J. R. Walsh. He had received a letter from Mr. 
Walsh, who had forwarded the coin, stating that it was found 
at a depth of three feet from the surface, in a field which 
formed apart of his (Mr. Walsh’s) property at Martinstown, 
Kilmallock, County Limerick, and suggesting that it was a 
Scotch coin, which might have been dropped by some soldier 
