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antique relics possessing considerable interest, which had been 

 contributed to the Museum of the Academy. He exhibited 

 a model of an ancient spear-head (the largest he remembered 



to have ever seen), sent to the Academy by Carruthers, 



Esq. The model was taken in lead, and was tinted so as to re- 

 present more accurately the original weapon, which is of bronze. 



Dr. Petrie proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Carruthers, 

 for this valuable model of a spear-head, which. Dr. Petrie was 

 persuaded, was the finest specimen of the kind existing in 

 Europe, as it was unequalled by any which had been disco- 

 vered in Greece, Egypt, or any of the eastern countries. 



The thanks of the Academy were voted to Mr. Carru- 

 thers. 



Dr. Petrie next called the attention of the meeting to a cast 

 of an inscription on a pillar-stone preserved in the grounds of 

 Mr. Gordon, of Newton, near Pitmachie, in Aberdeenshire, and 

 which Dr. Petrie presented to the Academy on the part of Pa- 

 trick Chalmers, Esq., of Auldbar, near Brechin, at whose ex- 

 pense thecasthadbeenmadeandforwarded. Dr. Petrieobserved, 

 that he had been induced to request this cast for the Academy 

 in consequence of his having discovered, from a similar cast 

 preserved in the Museum of the Royal Society of Scottish 

 Antiquaries at Edinburgh, that the stone bore a second in- 

 scription, not previously noticed, which was in the Irish 

 Ogham characters, and which he thought it desirable to bring 

 under the notice of the Academy ; the more particularly, as 

 two or three specimens of the same class had been recently 

 discovered in Wales. Unfortunately, however, this cast did 

 not embrace the entire of the Ogham inscription ; but the 

 inscription which it did present perfectly was one of great his- 

 torical importance, and of no less interest to the Irish than to 

 the Scottish antiquary, as it may be assumed to belong to the 

 Pictish people, whose early history is so intimately connected 



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