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Monday, February 28th, 1853. 



HUMPHREY LLOYD, D.D., President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary announced the following donations : — 



A Treatise on Syphilitic Diseases, by J. C. Egan, M.D., 

 M.R.I.A. ; presented by the author. A very rare form of 

 ancient stone battle-axe, found in the county of Galway ; pre- 

 sented by A. B. Cane, Esq., M.R.I.A. 



The following Answer to the Address to the Lord Lieu- 

 tenant, adopted at the last Meeting, was read, and ordered to 

 be printed in the Proceedings : — 



" Gentlemen, — I accept with pleasure your congratula- 

 tions on my arrival in this country as the Representative of our 

 Most Gracious Sovereign. 



" The study of ancient records, and of the remaining do- 

 cuments of antiquity, is a useful and important, as well as an 

 interesting, one. 



" Fully to understand the present, it is, indeed, necessary 

 to have some insight into the past. If this be true when said 

 generally, and of any country, it is especially true when said 

 of Ireland, on the character of whose people the past has left 

 so many traces. 



" As the official Visitor of your Academy, I shall willingly 

 co-operate with you in carrying into full effect the intentions of 

 its founder, and in thus promoting Science, Polite Literature, 

 and the study of Antiquities in Ireland." 



Dr. Allman read a note on the development of the fer- 

 ment-cells, and on some other vital phenomena of fermenta- 

 tion. 



In this communication the author first brought before the 

 notice of the Academy the occurrence of a certain peculiar 



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