484 ADDRESS DELIVERED AT A MEETING, ETC. 



DR.HINCKS, Accept this Medal as a proof of the high opinion 

 with which the Council of the Eoyal Irish Academy regard your 

 researches, connected with some of the most obscure and difficult 

 problems of Archaeology. Allow me to add, that the merit of those 

 researches, high as it is in itself, is enhanced in your case by the 

 circumstance, that they have been pursued in the seclusion of 

 retirement, and without any of those aids derived from the inter- 

 course with others engaged in similar pursuits, which are usually 

 so effective in impelling to and suggesting inquiry. 



MR. O'DoKovAN, Accept this Medal as a testimony of the 

 high value which the Council of the Royal Irish Academy set upon 

 your labours connected with Irish philology, and Irish history and 

 antiquities. This is the first occasion on which the Council, act- 

 ing on the laws recently enacted by the Academy, have conferred the 

 honour of the Cunningham Medal for works not published in the 

 Transactions of the Academy. They therefore hope that you (and 

 through you the literary public) will receive this award, not only 

 as a just tribute to the value of your own researches, but also as a 

 token of their sympathy with all who are engaged in the common 

 pursuit of Truth. 



