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February 10. 
SIR Wm. R. HAMILTON, LL.D., President, in the Chair. 
Rev. Maurice M‘Kay, LL.D., Frederick W. Burton, 
Esq. R.H.A., Joseph Napier, Esq., and Thomas Hutton, 
Esq. F.G.S., were elected Members of the Academy. 
REsoLveD,—Lo empower the Council, to prepare an 
Address of congratulation to Her Majesty, on the occasion 
of her marriage, and to affix the seal of the Academy 
thereto. 
The Academy adjourned. 
February 24. 
SIR Ws. R. HAMILTON, LL.D., President, in the Chair. 
J. Huband Smith, Esq. read a paper “ on the different 
kinds of Querns used by the Irish.” 
Having lately presented to the Academy, as a contri- 
bution to their collection of Irish Antiquities, an oblong 
quern, or corn-mill, of the most primitive form, Mr. Smith 
now offered some few remarks on this very ancient article of 
housewifery. 
The circular or rotatory quern, the parent of the modern 
millstones, is well known to antiquarians; but the still 
earlier and ruder hand-mill of an oblong form, (and which, 
therefore, must have been used in a very slow and laborious 
process, by pushing the upper stone backwards and for- 
wards upon the under,) does not appear to have been 
hitherto noticed, being, in fact, very rarely met with ; while 
the round quern is of comparatively common occurrence. 
