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Monpay, Frpruary 287u, 1853. 
HUMPHREY LLOYD, D.D., Presipenrt, in the Chair. 
Tue Secretary announced the following donations :— 
A Treatise on Syphilitic Diseases, by J. C. Egan, M.D., 
M.R.1I.A.; presented by the author. A very rare form of 
ancient stone battle-axe, found in the county of Galway ; pre- 
sented by A. B. Cane, Esq., M.R.I.A. 
The following Answer to the Address to the Lord Lieu- 
tenant, adopted at the last Meeting, was read, and ordered to 
be printed in the Proceedings :— 
‘“‘ GENTLEMEN,—I accept with pleasure your congratula- 
tions on my arrival in this country as the Representative of our 
Most Gracious Sovereign. 
‘** The study of ancient records, and of the remaining do- 
cuments of antiquity, is a useful and important, as well as an 
interesting, one. 
“ Fully to understand the present, it is, indeed, necessary 
to have some insight into the past. If this be true when said 
generally, and of any country, it is especially true when said 
of Ireland, on the character of whose people the past has left 
80 many traces. 
* As the official Visitor of your Academy, I shall willingly 
co-operate with you in carrying into full effect the intentions of 
its founder, and in thus promoting Science, Polite Literature, 
- and the study of Antiquities in Ireland.” 
Dr. Allman read a note on the development of the fer- 
ment-cells, and on some other vital phenomena of fermenta- 
tion. 
In this communication the author first brought before the 
notice of the Academy the occurrence of a certain peculiar 
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