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Leighlin and Ferns, were presented by Joseph Faviere El- 

 rington, Esq. 



The Rev. Samuel Haughton read a paper entitled " Theo- 

 retical Considerations respecting the original Fluidity of the 

 Earth and some other Planets, deduced from their observed 

 Figures." 



Dr. Kennedy Baillie, being called upon by the President 

 to read his Memoir on two ancient sculptures* preserved in 

 the Manuscript Room of the Library of the University, com- 

 menced with dividing his subject into the Philological and 

 Archaeological ; the first including notices respecting the epi- 

 graphs ; the second, relative to the type of ancient art, ac- 

 cording to which the anaglyphs were elaborated. 



Beginning with the former, he explained, in the first 

 place, the use of the lineole over the letters KA in the bust of 

 Thelymitres : secondly, the true meaning of " Thelymitres," 

 assigning his reasons for considering it in a quite different sense 

 from that entertained by Smith: thirdly, the signification of the 

 epithet <p'i\avSpog, Avhich he proved to have been, in the pre- 

 sent case, one of honour. 



His fourth subject of investigation Avere the interesting 

 details suggested by 6 dpeipag in the second line, as to the rela- 

 tions which subsisted between the Qpsirrripeg and the Open-rot, 

 as also the full meaning of the offices termed Qpeirrrtpia. This 

 inquiry was extended to the relations which obtained between 

 the tutelary deities, npoararripioi, and individuals respectively 

 under their guardianship, their Qpetrrot, the acknowledgment 

 of which, in the ritual of the ancient Greeks, was the offering 

 of the nXoKafiog dpairrfipiog. The universal observance of 



* The reader is referred to the " Proceedings of the Academy," of the 

 25th January, 1841, for important notices respecting these Anaglyphs, sub- 

 mitted by the Rev. J. H. Todd, D. D., now S. F. T. C. D., as preliminary to 

 those now presented. 



