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tion with which I ask you, on the part of the Academy, to deliver to 
him this Medal, is only alloyed by his own absence. It would have been 
a real pleasure to me, and [ think I may say to every Member of the 
Academy, to have seen him receive it in person. It is not often 
that a man who has reached the scriptural limit of human life is called 
upon before a Society like this, to receive a Medal for his literary exer- 
tions; but it is still more rare, that a man, after having reached that 
advanced age, should have produced a work of great originality and 
acuteness,—a work of which it is not too much to say, that it opens 
up new fields of thought and of research to all students of Biblical 
criticism.” 
Dr. Butcher returned thanks on behalf of Dr. Wall, and promised to 
convey to him the President’s message. 
The President then called upon Dr. Reeves, and said :— 
“‘T have no small pleasure, Dr. Reeves, in presenting to you this 
well merited reward of your labours. Accept it as a testimony from 
this Academy to the great value of your writings, not only from their 
intrinsic merit, and the additions they have made to our historical 
and antiquarian knowledge, but from the tone and style in which they 
are composed, which render them models to be imitated by all who 
would labour with profit to themselves and others in the same field 
of learning.” 
Dr. Reeves returned thanks. 
A vote of thanks to the President for his Address was proposed by 
his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, seconded by Sir William Rowan 
Hamilton, and passed unanimously. 
The Academy then adjourned. 
MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1858. 
James Hentnorn Topp, D.D., President, in the Chair. 
Henry J. Brownnriec, Esq., and the Ven. Frederick Goold, Archdeacon 
of Raphoe, were elected Members of the Academy. 
Wittram Drennan, Esq., read the following paper— 
ON AN ANCIENT INSCRIPTION SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE ETRUSCAN LANGUAGE. 
Donaxpson, in his ‘ Varronianus,” pp. 126, 127, gives an inscription 
which he conceives to be Etruscan, in which the Pelasgian element pre- 
ponderates; and he proceeds, in a note, to offer suggestions for explain- 
ing it upon that supposition. In consulting his work for etymological 
purposes, it struck me very forcibly that the words of this inscription, 
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