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Committee of Antiquities. 
George Petrie, LL.D.; Rev. James H. Todd, D. D.; 
J. Huband ‘Smith, Esq., A. M.; <Aquilla Smith, M.D.; 
Earl of Dunraven; Major Larcom, R. E.; Lord Talbot de 
Malahide. 
The President, under his hand and seal, nominated the 
following Vice-Presidents for the current year:— 
James Apjohn, M. D.; Rev. Humphrey Lloyd, D.D.; 
Major Larcom, R. E.; George Petrie, LL. D. 
Rev. Dr. Graves said, it was his duty, on the part of Mr. 
Richard Hitchcock, to present to the Museum of the Aca- 
demy two inscribed Ogham monuments, and a portion of an 
ancient quern. Mr. Hitchcock had described the articles in a 
letter, from which the following was an extract :— 
«« The stone which I have marked No. 1 (my new disco- 
very last autumn) is believed to have been originally brought 
from the same rath in which was found another fine Ogham 
monument, now preserved at Lougher. It is a good spe- 
cimen of these inscriptions. No. 2 was the lintel over the 
doorway of a little building of this ground form (Q), the flat 
side showing where the doorway was, in a rath at Gortna- 
gullanagh. Outside this building was another circle, running 
round it. This stone bears a remarkably well-preserved 
Ogham inscription, and exhibits two deeply cut crosses, one 
on either side of the stone. In order to prevent mistake, it 
may be necessary to state clearly, that this stone was not 
found in the souterrain of the rath, the little building above 
referred to having been on the surface of the ground but 
within the enclosure of the rath. An ancient quern was also 
found near the Ogham stone in this fort, and as I thought it 
an interesting addition, I procured one stone of it, which ac- 
companies the Ogham inscription.” 
