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their investigation will form an important accessary to the 
history of the Indo-European race, and also that such an 
investigation will probably destroy the popular theories of 
their having been temples and altars of the Druids. 
March 16. (Stated Meeting.) 
SIR Ws. R. HAMILTON, A.M., President, in the Chair. 
This being the day appointed by Charter for the annual 
election, the following Officers and Members of Council were 
chosen for the ensuing year: 
President—Professor Sir Wm. Rowan Hamilton, A. M. 
Treasurer—Thomas Herbert Orpen, M. D. 
Secretary—Joseph Henderson Singer, D.D. 
Secretary to Council—Rev. Humphrey Lloyd, A. M. 
Secretary*of Foreign Correspondence—Sir Wm. Betham. 
Librarian—Rev. William Hamilton Drummond. 
Committee of Science. 
Rev. Franc Sadleir, D. D. Provost of Trinity College ; 
Rev. Humphrey Lloyd, A.M.; James Apjohn, M. D.; James 
Mac Cullagh, Esq. A. M.; William Stokes,’ M. D.; Rev. 
William Digby Sadleir, A.M.; Robert Ball, Esq. 
Committee of Polite Literature. 
His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin; Rev. Joseph H. 
Singer, D. D.; Andrew Carmichael, Esq. ; Samuel Litton, 
M.D.; Rev. William H. Drummond; Rev. Charles Richard 
Elrington, D. D.; Rev. Charles William Wall, D. D. 
Committee of Antiquities. 
Thomas Herbert Orpen, M. D.; Sir William Betham ; 
’ George Petrie, Iisq.; Rev. Caesar Otway, A. B.; the Very 
