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F The Ballot was then closed, and the gentlemen proposed 
for admission as Honorary Members of the Academy were de- 
clared by the President to be duly elected. 
Monpay, DecemBer 131H, 1852. 
orromas agora ROBINSON, D.D., PresipEnT, 
in the Chair. 
: Rev. Cuartes Graves, D.D., read a paper on the affinities 
of certain Irish and Latin words. 
: One of the laws of affinity noticed by Dr. Graves is, that 
ina number of Irish words derived from, or cognate with, 
} ‘the Latin, the letter x disappears. He illustrated this law 
by the following list of words, which admits of being conside- 
rably increased :-— 
Argentum, aingloo. i Infernus, 1ppionn. 
Cantilena, ceaval. Inter, Torn. 
Carpentum, canbabd. Mensa, miap. 
Census, clop- Mensis, miop. 
Centum, cedad-. Quinque, culs. 
Consecro, coippeacaim. Tendo, ceud. 
Consto, .° copcup. Ulna, ullle. 
Dens, vedo. Viginti, - pico. 
; Tn these instances the n disappears generally before a con- 
 sonant; and most frequently before d or ¢. The full estab- 
- lishment of this fact contributes materially to the proof of M. 
 Pictet’s assertion, that -aro, the suffix of the 3rd pers. plur. 
indice. pres. in Irish, corresponds with the Sanskrit -anti and 
the Latin -ant, -ent, -unt. : 
An initial n seems to have been suppressed in the words 
ovdce, nor, and unip, numerus. But this may, perhaps, be 
