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Committee of Antiquities. 



George Petrie, LL. D. ; Rev. James H. Todd, D. D. ; 

 J. Huband Smith, Esq., A. M. ; Samuel Ferguson, Esq. ; 

 Aquilla Smith, M. D. ; Earl of Dunraven; T. A. Larcom, 

 Esq., R. E. 



The President, under his hand and seal, nominated the 

 following Vice-Presidents for the current year : 



John Anster, LL. D. ; James Apjohn, M.D. ; Rev. Hum- 

 phrey Lloyd, D. D. ; Thomas A. Larcom, Esq., R. E. 



It was Resolved, — That the Council be empowered to 

 prepare an Address to the Earl of Eglinton, Lord Lieutenant, 

 and that the Academy be summoned on the day appointed by 

 His Excellency, to wait upon him with the Address. 



On the part of the Commissioners of the Board of Public 

 Works, Mr. W. T. Mulvany presented three thin gold plates, 

 which had been recently found in the bed of a tributary of the 

 river Erne, running between Ballina and Crossdoney, in the 

 townland of Belville, county of Cavan. 



Dr. Petrie moved that the warmest thanks of the Academy 

 be given to the Board of Works for tbis interesting donation, 

 observing, that they were, as specimens, not merely new to 

 us, but new, he believed, to every other collection of gold 

 antiquities. 



Dr. Petrie presented to the Museum a silver coin, on the 

 part of Mr. J. R. Walsh. He had received a letter from Mr. 

 Walsh, who had forwarded the coin, stating that it was found 

 at a depth of three feet from the surface, in a field which 

 formed a part of his (Mr. Walsh's) property at Martinstown, 

 Kilmallock, County Limerick, and suggesting that it was a 

 Scotch coin, which might have been dropped by some soldier 



