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Monpay, Apri llru, 1853. 
THOMAS ROMNEY ROBINSON, D.D., Prestwen7, 
in the Chair. 
Tue Rey. Beaver H. Blacker ; Major Bonner; John E. 
Butler, Esq., C. E.; Francis R. Davies, Esq.; Rev. Wil- 
liam Fitzgerald, D. D.; John Lentaigne, M. D.; James J. 
Mac Carthy, Esq.; Alexander Read, M. D.; and Henry H. 
Stewart, M.D.; were elected Members of the Academy. 
The Secretary of the Academy presented, from F. W. 
Barton, Esq., two bronze ladles and a large bronze sword, of 
great beauty, and in perfect preservation; from the Dean of 
Kilmacduagh, several fragments of the upper stone of a quern, 
handsomely ornamented ; from Mr. Gillespie, the bronze ring 
of a fibula, found at Highfield, Rathfarnham. The Proceed- 
ings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. 1. part i. ; 
presented by the Society. 
The Secretary read a paper by Mr. William Mallet, on the 
results of his chemical examination of the metallic articles in 
the Museum of the Academy. 
The President made some remarks on Mr. Mallet’s com- 
munication. 
Rey. Dr. Drummond read the first part of a paper on the 
achievements of Magnus Barefoot, king of Norway, and on 
his defeat and death in the battle of Magh Cobha, in Ireland, 
A. D. 1103. 
Professor Sir William Rowan Hamilton, LL.D., commu- 
nicated a few remarks on the geometrical demonstration of 
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