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Council, together with the amendment thereto, to have been 
adopted by the Academy. 
The following donations were presented :— 
1. Meteorological Observations made at Newport, Tip- 
perary, from lst July to 31st December, 1852; presented by 
the Rey. J. W. Heffernan. 
2. An iron finger ring found at Cong; presented by 8. C. 
Hall, Esq. 
3. The following antiquities were presented, on behalf of 
the Board of Works, by W. T. Mulvany, Esq. : 
Four bronze swords, one hatchet, and three spear-heads ; 
an iron pike-head and hatchet, and three hardwood caltraps: 
found at Cutts, near Coleraine. Six stone and two bronze 
celts, an iron spear-head and bayonet, three fibule, one bridle- 
bit, and two cheek-plates, made of bronze: found at Lough- 
ran’s Island. A short bronze dagger, with highly ornamented 
_ blade; an iron sword, with basket hilt, and two oak paddles : 
found at Toome, from the lower Bann River. 
Also, a two-edged iron sword, asword-hilt, an iron can- 
non-ball, a bronze spear-head, and a very long and peculiarly 
shaped stone celt ; a bronze cooking-pan, with a handle: col- 
lected in the Blackwater River, by Charles C. Ottley, Esq., 
District Engineer. 
Bronze sword and iron skein, found in the Barony of Tul- 
lyhunco and County Cavan; an iron tobacco-pipe, found near 
Killeshandra; a bronze dagger, found in Armagh Drain, 
County Leitrim ; a bronze celt, found in the Woodford River, 
townland of Cormun, County Cavan: collected by Thomas J. 
Mulvany, Esq., District Engineer. 
A stone pestle, an armlet made of black stone, and a flat 
circular stone, found near Ballyhoe Lake, County Louth: 
collected by R. Manning, Esq., District Engineer. 
A curious bronze capsule, found in the railway gripe at 
