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DONATIONS. 



Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. No. XI. Pre- 

 sented by the Society. 



Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de VAca- 

 demie des Sciences. Premier Semestre, 1840, Nos. 13 — 19, 

 and Index. Presented by the Institute. 



A Quern, Fragments of Pottery, and Animal Remains, 

 found on Roughan Island. Presented by Wm. Pike, Esq. 



A Letter to the President of the Royal Irish Academy, 

 in reply to certain Charges made against George Petrie, Esq. 

 Presented by the Author. 



A Manuscript Copy of Keating' s History of Ireland, by 

 Andrew M'Curtin, dated at IbricJcan, County of Clare, A.D. 

 1703. Presented by Richard Carmichael, Esq. 

 A bronze Axe. Presented by the same. 



June 22. 

 SIR Wm. R. HAMILTON, LL.D., President, in the Chair. 



The Rev. Dr. Todd continued his account of the contents 

 of the Book of Lismore. 



The tracts next in order in this volume are legends 

 of ecclesiastical history, — as the legend of the venerable 

 Bede ; of St. Petronilla, the daughter of St. Peter; of the 

 discovery of the Sybilline Oracle, in a stone coffin at 

 Rome; of St. Gregory the Great; the heresy of the Em- 

 press Justina. Then follow tracts on the origin of some 

 of the minor ceremonies of the mass ; an account of the 

 successors of Charlemagne; the controversy of Archbishop 

 Lanfranc with the Romans, about Transubstantiation ; a bat- 

 tle between the priests of Rome and the devil ; extracts 

 from the voyage of Marco Polo, translated into Irish ; 

 a very ancient tract on the wars of the celebrated Cal- 

 laghan Cashel, King of Munster, with the Danes, in the 

 tenth century ; a romantic tale, entitled, The Adventures 

 of Teige, the son of Cian, the son of Oilliol Olum, King of 



