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Mr. Wilde concluded by impressing on the Academy the 
importance of appointing persons to inquire into this and such 
other objects of antiquarian interest as might, from time to 
time, come to their knowledge, and thereby preserving them 
to the Academy and to science; and he read a letter from Mr. 
Barnwall, offering every facility to the Academy, or to any of 
its members, to make further investigations into the bone-heap 
at Lagore. 
The thanks of the Academy were voted to Mr. Barnwall, 
for his obliging offer. 
Ir was Resotvep, (on the recommendation of Council,) 
to omit the words in Chapter II. Sect. 5, of By-laws, fol- 
lowing the words “ each candidate proposed.” 
DONATIONS. 
A Spear Head. Presented by Sir W. Betham. 
An Examination of the Ancient Orthography of the Jews, 
and of the original State of the Text of the Hebrew Bible. 
By Charles W. Wall, D.D.,M.R.I.A. Presented by the 
Author. 
Ordnance Map of the County of Wicklow, in Forty-nine 
sheets, including Title and Index. Presented by His Ex- 
cellency the Lord Lieutenant. 
Burgh Records of the City of Glasgow. By John Smith, 
Esq. Presented by the Author. 
Journal of the Franklin Institute. Vol. XXIV. for 1839. 
Presented by the Society. 
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 
Vol. I. Nos. 9 and 10. Presented by the Society. 
Quarterly Journal of the Statistical Society of London, 
Vol. III. Part 7. Presented by the Society. 
