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DONATIONS, 
Observations on the Evidence taken before the Committee 
of the House of Commons, on the Record Commission in 1836, 
and the Report so far as it refers to the Irish Records. By 
Sir William Betham, Ulster King of Arms, &c. &c. Pre- 
sented by the Author. 
An Oration on the Important Advantages derivable from 
Philosophical Instruction. By Henry W. Dewhurst, Esq. 
Presented by the Author. 
A Practical Treatise on the Management and Diseases of 
Children. By Richard T. Evanson, M.D. Presented by 
the Author. 
The following is the extract from the letter of the Baron 
de Donop to Sir William Betham, referred to in the last 
number of the Proceedings: 
* Our literati in Germany have been of late much 
excited and interested by the alleged discovery of the MS. 
Translation of the History of the Pheenicians, by Philo 
Biblius, now printing at Bremen. It is generally considered 
a modern fabrication; but at the same time it is not easy 
to say by whom. ‘Time will, at no very distant period, de- 
cide the question, as upwards of 100 pages of the Greek 
text have been already printed. 
‘* For myself, I am inclined to think it genuine. A close 
and careful examination of a portion which has appeared at 
Hanover, has convinced me that no fabricator could have 
formed that work, unless he had been profoundly acquainted 
with the writings of Vallancey, O’Connor, your own works, 
and those of all others who have asserted the identity of 
the Pheenician Punic language with that of Ireland; for it is 
that tongue which is recognized in all the names, almost 
without exception, which in the mouth of Sanconiathon 
ought to be Pheenician. 
