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The Secretary of the Academy briefly explained the great value and 
importance of this collection of MSS. to all persons interested in the his- 
tory and antiquities of Ireland; and moved the following resolution, 
which was seconded by Lord Talbot de Malahide, and carried by accla- 
mation :— 
“‘That the special thanks of the Academy are due, and hereby pre- 
sented, to Sir Henry James, R.E., Superintendent of the Ordnance Sur- 
vey, and to Lieut.-Colonel Leach, for this most valuable donation; and 
that the Academy desire to acknowledge, on this occasion, the import- 
ance of the services rendered to the history and antiquities of Ireland by 
Major General Sir Thomas A. Larcom, under whose superintendence 
the plan of collecting materials for the illustration of the ancient topo- 
graphy of Ireland was organized and successfully carried into effect.’’ 
Lord Talbot de Malahide, on the part of the Rev. Greville Chester, 
presented to the Museum an artificially-wrought flint celt, found at 
Hoxne, in Suffolk. . ; 
Dr. Tufnell, on the part of Captain O’ Hara, presented a curious 
bronze crucifix, found on the Island of Turlough, Barony of Moycullen, 
County Galway. 
Rev. Dr. Reeves, on the part of John Stuart, Esq., Secretary of 
the Society of Antiquaries, and of the Spalding Club of Scotland, pre- 
sented copies of the following books :—‘‘ Registrum Episcopatus Aber- 
donensis ;”’ a ‘‘ Genealogical Deduction of the Family of Kilravock ;” 
“‘ Fasti-Aberdonenses ;” ‘‘ Records of the University of King’s College, 
Aberdeen ;” ‘‘Registrum Episcopatus Brechonensis ;” and the ‘‘ Book 
of the Thanes of Cawdor.” | 
Rev. Joseph Galbraith called attention to a vote of the Council, 
passed on 11th inst., by which £11 12s 6d was granted for the purchase 
of a collection of casts of antiquities, and moved— 
‘¢ That it be recommended to the Council, that the sum of £11. 12s. 6d. 
voted by the Council for the purchase of casts of antiquities, bought by 
Mr. Wilde, in Mayence, be defrayed out of the sum of £50, voted for 
such purposes by the Academy, on the 14th May, 1860.” 
The proposition was seconded by Rey. J. H. Jellett; and a division 
having been called for, it appeared that there were for the motion 12, 
and against it, 21. The motion was therefore negatived. 
The Academy then adjourned. 
MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1860. 
Jamres HuenrHorn Topp, D. D., President, in the Chair. 
Ir was Rusotvep, on the recommendation of the Council, that the 
Academy do co-operate with the Royal Dublin Society in receiving the 
Association for the promotion of Social Science, on the occasion of its 
next congress in Dublin, in 1861. 
The Rev. Dr. Reeves read the conclusion of his paper ‘‘ On the An- 
cient Order of Culdees in Irelend.”’ 
