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autorise a lui communiquerles lignes qui precedent. Jeredige 

 et ne tarderai pas a publier le resume complet de mes diverses 

 experiences et j'aurai I'honneur d'en adresser de copies, a vous, 

 cher Monsieur, et a rAcademie, comme je I'ai fait des mes 

 opuscules anterieurs, en signe de ma profonde consideration. 

 " Croyez-moi, Monsieur et tres-honore Collegue, votre 

 serviteur tres-afFectionne 



" Elie Wartmann. 

 " Geneve, le 8 Juillet, 1847." 



The Secretary presented an ancient bell from John Con- 

 nellan Deane, Esq., and read the following extract from a letter 

 addressed by him to Sir Robert Kane : 



" The facts connected with my possession of it are shortly 

 these: A pawnbroker residing in the town of Carndonagh, in 

 the union of Inishowen, which I had charge of under the 

 Temporary Relief Act, offered it to me for sale when I was 

 engaged in official business in that town. It appears that it was 

 parted with by a man to obtain food, and, as 1 understood, by a 

 descendant of a family of the name of O'Donnell, who pawned 

 it for a great number of years. It was found in the townland 

 of Carnaclug (the Head of the Bell), which locality, they say, 

 takes its name from the bell." 



The Rev. Samuel Butcher read a paper by the Rev. C. W. 

 Wall (V. P.), on the different kinds of cuneiform character 

 employed by the Persians, and on the language of the inscrip- 

 tions written in the first kind ; of which the followino- is an 

 outline : 



1. A large proportion of the words of this language is 

 utterly lost. Those preserved are to be found principally in 

 the various forms of the Sanscrit tongue. 



2. The Zend, which is a corrupt dialect and early deriva- 

 tive of the Sanscrit, approaches in grammatical structure 



