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DONATIONS. 
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. No. XI. Pre- 
sented by the Society. 
Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de I Aca- 
demie des Sciences. Premier Semestre, 1840, Nos. 13—19, 
and Index. Presented by the Institute. 
A Quern, Fragments of Pottery, and Animal Remains, 
found on Roughan Island. Presented by Wm. Pike, Esq. 
A Letter to the President of the Royal Irish Academy, 
in reply to certain Charges made against George Petrie, Esq. 
Presented by the Author. 
A Manuscript Copy of Keating’s History of Ireland, by 
Andrew M‘ Curtin, dated at Ibrickan, County of Clare, A.D. 
1703. Presented by Richard Carmichael, Esq. 
A bronze Axe. Presented by the same. 
June 22. 
SIR Ws. R. HAMILTON, LL.D., President, in the Chair. 
The Rey. Dr. Todd continued his account of the contents 
of the Book of Lismore. 
The tracts next in order in this volume are legends 
of ecclesiastical history,—as the legend of the venerable 
Bede; of St. Petronilla, the daughter of St. Peter; of the 
discovery of the Sybilline Oracle, in a stone coffin at 
Rome; of St. Gregory the Great; the heresy of the Em- 
press Justina. Then follow tracts on the origin of some 
of the minor ceremonies of the mass; an account of the 
successors of Charlemagne; the controversy of Archbishop 
Lanfrane with the Romans, about Transubstantiation ; a bat- 
tle between the priests of Rome and the devil; extracts 
from the voyage of Marco Polo, translated into Irish ; 
a very ancient tract on the wars of the celebrated Cal- 
laghan Cashel, King of Munster, with the Danes, in the 
tenth century; a romantic tale, entitled, The Adventures 
of Teige, the son of Cian, the son of Oilliol Olum, King of 
