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Monday, April 11th, 1853. 



THOMAS ROMNEY ROBINSON, D. D., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Rev. Beaver H. Blacker ; Major Bonner ; John E. 

 Butler, Esq., C. E. ; Francis R. Davies, Esq. ; Rev. Wil- 

 liam Fitzgerald, D. D. ; John Lentaigne, M. D.; James J. 

 Mac Carthy, Esq. ; Alexander Read, M. D. ; and Henry H. 

 Stewart, M. D. ; were elected Members of the Academy. 



The Secretary of the Academy presented, from F. W. 

 Barton, Esq., two bronze ladles and a large bronze sword, of 

 great beauty, and in perfect preservation ; from the Dean of 

 Kilmacduagh, several fragments of the upper stone of a quern, 

 handsomely ornamented ; from Mr. Gillespie, the bronze ring 

 of a fibula, found at Highfield, Rathfarnham. The Proceed- 

 ings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. i. part i. ; 

 presented by the Society. 



The Secretary read a paper by Mr. William Mallet, on the 

 results of his chemical examination of the metallic articles in 

 the Museum of the Academy. 



The President made some remarks on Mr. Mallet's com- 

 munication. 



Rev. Dr. Drummond read the first part of a paper on the 

 achievements of Magnus Barefoot, king of Norway, and on 

 his defeat and death in the battle ofMagh Cobha, in Ireland, 

 a. d. 1103. 



Professor Sir William Rowan Hamilton, LL.D., commu- 

 nicated a few remarks on the geometrical demonstration of 

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