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The President also exhibited a Persian soldier’s medal, made of a 
certain base metal resembling silver, with an inscription in the Persian 
language on one side, the reverse being blank. From this inscription’it 
appears that the medal was worn as an amulet, to protect the wearer in 
battle. The following translation of it was made by the learned William 
Wright, Esq., Professor of Arabic in the University :— 
‘HE 1s THE HELPER. 
‘OQ Glorious and Almighty God, the certain verification of thy great 
Word has sent forth this wretched slave, this person, into the midst of 
war against the enemy; but, saving the aid and assistance of thy holy 
and exalted self, I have no other. It is in every way incumbent on thee 
to show some care (for me).”’ 
W. N. Hancock, LL. D., communicated a ‘‘ Formula for the value 
of commodities, to determine the probable fall in the value of Gold.” 
MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1860. 
Lorp Tatzor pe Mataurps, VY. P., in the Chair. 
Rey. Benzamin Dicrson, A.M., F. T. C. D.; Francis Clarke, M.D.; E. 
Alfred Conwell, Esq.; William Foley, M. D.; Captain A. M. Moore; 
Alexander J. R. Stewart, Esq., and Laurence Waldron, Esq., M. P., were 
elected Members of the Academy. 
Mr. G. V. Du Nover described, and presented to the Academy— 
A SERIES OF 118 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS OF IRISH ANTIQUITIES. 
Berrore I allude to the sepia sketches which I have the pleasure of 
bringing before you this evening, I beg to say a few words with refe- 
rence to drawings of antiquities which I have placed in the large book 
portfolio now on the Library table. 
In the month of August last I had occasion to visit Edenderry, and, 
while engaged in my geological researches over the neighbourhood, I 
heard frequent mention made of Mr. Murray’s Museum, occupying a 
room in the Market-house of that town. 
On the completion of my work I was enabled, through the kind- 
ness of the Rev. Mr. Murray, Rector of Edenderry, to examine his bro- 
ther’s museum carefully ; and I found in it many objects of early Irish 
art, as well as implements of iron, unlike any in the Academy’s Mu- 
seum. Of these I made sketches; and I now beg to present them to 
the Academy, as they elucidate and fill up certain gaps in our collec- 
tion. 
I have appended to them a rough catalogue of the Irish antiquities 
in the Edenderry Museum. 
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