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or Firbolg race, evidently belonging to a younger individual, who was 
probably about 5 feet 10 incheshigh. The lower jaw is lighter and nar- 
rower, with the chin not so prominent or well developed as in the glo- 
bular headed race. 
“‘Tn this chamber, between the leg bones, was placed the cinerary urn 
herewith presented to the Academy. It is of the very rudest form, and 
of reddish unglazed pottery, more pyramidal than globular in its form, 
41 inches high, 5} inches wide at the top, and standing on a base 2$ 
inches across. It is much thicker than the better class of vessels of this 
class in our collection, and its ornamentation is of the very rudest de- 
scription, consisting of a few scratches and indentations. It is now 
numbered 46 in the addition to the collection of such vessels already 
enumerated in the printed Catalogue. It did not contain any incinerated 
bones, but was said to be found filled with the fine clay which occupied 
a great portion of the kist. 
“‘The fact of these two heads being found together is exceedingly 
interesting, as it shows not ouly that the two races existed contempo- 
raneously, but that they were there and then, at least, in such amicable 
relation as to have a common tomb, yet separated by a partition, as if 
to mark the distinction which even in death remained between them. 
The urn, which probably originally contained the incinerated bones of a 
human sacrifice, may have been common to both. Outside, and in close 
contiguity with the western chamber, were found some fragments of 
human bones, and portions of the upper and lower jaw of an individual 
who had probably not exceeded twelve years of age.” 
A vote of thanks was then passed to the various donors for the fore- 
going presentations to the Library and Museum. 
Dr. Petrie presented, on the part of Sir Richard Griffith, Bart., an 
antique seal, which had been found by the workmen of the Board of 
Works, when sinking for the foundations of the new buildings in the 
neighbourhood of the Four Courts. 
After some explanatory observations from Dr. Petrie on this seal, 
which he said belonged to the thirteenth century, a vote of thanks was 
passed to Sir R. Griffith, and the meeting separated at a quarter past 
11 o'clock. 
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1858. 
James Hentuorn Topp, D.D., President, in the Chair. 
Tae Rey. Wrtt1am Reeves read the following paper— 
Tue monastery of Reichenau (Augia Dives), situated on an island in 
the lower part of the Lake of Constance, was in early times much re- 
sorted to by the Irish. Walafridus Strabo, its Abbot from 842 to 849, 
has left us an account of the martyrdom of the monks of Hy by the 
Danes in 825, more full than anything on record at home. The oldest 
copy extant of Adamnan’s “Life of 8. Columba’ was preserved there till 
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