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PROCEEDINGS 
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THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. 
April 9. 
SIR Ws. R. HAMILTON, A. M., President, in the Chair. 
The following gentlemen ‘were elected members of the 
Academy. 
Simeon Hardy, Esq., Robert Adams, Esq., Captain 
John Pitt Kennedy, George Digges Latouche, Esq., Jacob 
Owens, Esq., Charles T. Webber, Esq., Henry Barry, Esq., 
_ The Hon. James King, Elliot Warburton, Esq., George 
Downes, E'sq., The Venerable the Archdeacon of Raphoe. 
Sir William Betham read a letter from Dr. Hibbert 
Ware, describing a cromlech near Bombay, in India. The 
following are extracts :— 
“‘ My chief motive for sending you two sketches of crom- 
lechs, recently discovered by my son, Mr. William Hibbert 
Ware, Assistant Surgeon, 2nd Foot, or Queen’s Royal, in 
the East Indies, has a reference as much to the interest 
_ which such a distant locality attaches to this very early spe- 
cies of monument, as to the apparent use to which it is al- 
leged to have been subservient. 
“In the admirable history of Ireland by Mr. Thomas 
Moore, this interesting writer, while treating of cromlechs, 
has adverted to the remarkable circumstance recorded in 
Maundrel’s Travels, that a monument of this description was 
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