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wish to have attached to each thing found a card, with a descrip- 
tion on one side of the place where found, name of townland, parish, 
barony, and county, and the name of the engineer by whose care 
and attention it has been collected ; and on the other side of the 
card a description of the precise locality, the material in which 
imbedded, its depth, allusion to other antiquities found with it, 
and such other matters of interest as occur to you to record. With 
these views, and especially that of identification with the locality, 
as in a very remarkable and permanent way illustrating the local 
and general history of the country, you will readily perceive the 
importance of collecting and forwarding everything found, even 
though there be several of the same kind ; as, looking forward to a 
classification in localities, they will illustrate the universality or 
otherwise of certain practices, and confirm or confute historical 
manuscripts, poems, &c. If with the articles collected you will, in 
addition to the cards, forward a letter or brief paper descriptive of 
them, with a catalogue, and any facts, opinions, or traditions con- 
nected with the neighbourhood where they have been found, you 
will confer additional advantage on the public; and care will be 
taken to have your paper recorded, and its statements brought 
before the Academy. In cases where islands of artificial construc- 
tion, raths, or other works, have been discovered or cut into, 
descriptive drawings and sections will be of the greatest importance, 
and you are requested to forward them.” 
“* You will understand this letter as referring also to all officers 
in your department who may have collected any such articles, and 
with whom I may have omitted to communicate. It is so palpably 
better for the interest of all that the articles found should be depo- 
sited in a great national museum, with the names of the collectors 
recorded, than to have a few scattered articles possessed by indivi- 
duals, and ultimately lost,—it is so clearly our duty as public offi- 
cers to have the collection so deposited,—that I place entire reliance 
in your using your influence to collect and forward everything that 
has and shall be found.” 
To that circular there has been a cheerful and satisfactory re- 
sponse on the part of the engineers who have been successful in 
making collections; and I now proceed to present the collections 
received, and to furnish such information as has been afforded. 
[Mr. Mulvany then exhibited the antiquities presented (vide 
pages lili to Ixvi.) and read the following extracts from letters 
received in reply to his circular. } 
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