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“We trust that your Excellency’s administration of the high 
office confided to you by our most gracious Sovereign will not 
only tend to the peace and prosperity of Ireland, and the de- 
velopment of the internal and commercial resources of the 
country, but also to the advancement of the scientific and lite- 
rary pursuits to which the Royal Irish Academy is especially 
devoted.” 
ANSWER. 
““Mr. PresipENT aND GENTLEMEN,—I thank you for 
your kind congratulation on my arrival here as the Represen- 
tative of our most gracious Queen, and I am gratified to hear 
that in the high position in which Her Majesty has been 
pleased to place me, I am ex-officio the Visitor of the Royal 
Trish Academy. 
“¢ Owing to the numerous duties which have occupied me 
during the short period I have been in this country, I have 
had but little time to inquire into the character or object of 
your Society ; but on looking over the list of names of the 
Members who are enrolled in it, I feel convinced that your ef- 
forts for the advancement of polite literature, science, and an- 
tiquarian researches must have been successful, and productive 
of great advantages. 
“Tam glad to hear that, owing to the kindness of Lord 
Clarendon, the Academy is now provided with a suitable 
house, and I sincerely join in the hopes you have expressed, 
_ that the new arrangements you are about to make will be be- 
neficial to the student as well as interesting and instructive 
to the public.” 
Dr. Petrie presented, from Mr. William Wakeman, a Ro- 
man coin of ‘‘the younger Faustina,” found at Navan. It 
was a rather curious circumstance that Roman coins should be 
so frequently discovered in that particular locality. 
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