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Council, together with the amendment thereto, to have been 

 adopted by the Academy. 



The following donations were presented : — 



1. Meteorological Observations made at Newport, Tip- 

 perary, from 1st July to 31st December, 1852; presented by 

 the Eev. J. W. Heffernan. 



2. An iron finger ring found at Cong ; presented by S. C. 

 Hall, Esq. 



3. The following antiquities were presented, on behalf of 

 the Board of Works, by W. T. Mulvany, Esq. : 



Four bronze swords, one hatchet, and three spear-heads ; 

 an iron pike-head and hatchet, and three hardwood caltraps : 

 found at Cutts, near Coleraine. Six stone and two bronze 

 celts, an iron spear-head and bayonet, three fibulas, one bridle- 

 bit, and two cheek-plates, made of bronze : found at Lough- 

 ran's Island. A short bronze dagger, with highly ornamented 

 blade ; an iron sword, with basket hilt, and two oak paddles : 

 found at Toome, from the lower Bann River. 



Also, a two-edged iron sword, a sword-hilt, an iron can- 

 non-ball, a bronze spear-head, and a very long and peculiarly 

 shaped stone celt ; a bronze cooking-pan, with a handle : col- 

 lected in the Blackwater River, by Charles C. Ottley, Esq., 

 District Engineer. 



Bronze sword and iron skein, found in the Barony of Tul- 

 lyhunco and County Cavan ; an iron tobacco-pipe, found near 

 Killeshandra ; a bronze dagger, found in Armagh Drain, 

 Comity Leitrim ; a bronze celt, found in the Woodford River, 

 townland of Cormun, County Cavan : collected by Thomas J. 

 Mulvany, Esq., District Engineer. 



A stone pestle, an armlet made of black stone, and a flat 

 circular stone, found near Ballyhoe Lake, County Louth: 

 collected by R. Manning, Esq., District Engineer. 



A curious bronze capsule, found in the railway gripe at 



