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process still for the conversion of fusel oil into valerianic acid 

 is that by potash, originally given by Dumas and Stass." 



On the part of Richard Caulfield, Esq., the Secretary ex- 

 hibited an inscription on a silver ring found in the county 

 Galway : the letters are as follows : 



«{« AVENMGAONEAIME. 



He also presented, on the part of the same gentleman, 

 a lithograph representing a silver buckle, and other orna- 

 ments, in the possession of Thomas Ronayne Sarsfield, Esq. ; 

 and a rubbing from a stone in the church of Mallow, with the 

 following inscription : " Hie jacet Jacobus filius Wilhelme de 

 Barry, in temporalibus dominus Kilmaclenyn." 



In the absence of Dr. Stokes, Dr. Petrie presented, from 

 Rev. William Demoleyns, to the Museum, a large bronze ves- 

 sel, found in the lands of Lahern, in the parish of Killorglan, 

 in the county of Kerry, in 1849. 



Rev. Charles Graves, on the part of Sir Robert Gore 

 Booth, M. P., presented an ancient wooden crucifix, found in 

 a font in the demesne of Lissadell, County Sligo. 



January 13, 1851. 



JOHN ANSTER, LL. D., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



Sir Francis Waskett Myers, Bart. ; Rev. Orlando Dobbin, 

 LL.D.; Samuel Gordon, M.D.; Daniel Griffin, M.D.; Ewing 

 Whittle, M. D. ; St. George Williams, M.D.; Robert Clayton 

 Browne ; James Gibson ; Henry Hennessy ; Andrew John 

 Maley ; and William Harvey Pirn, Esquires, were elected 

 Members of the Academy. 



