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November 30th, 1849. (Stated Meeting.) 



The REV. HUMPHREY LLOYD, D. D., President, 



in the Chair. 



On the recommendation of the Council, the following were 

 elected Honorary Members of the Academy : 



In the Department of Science. 

 Alexander Von Humboldt. 



In the Department of Polite Literature. 



Jacob Geimsl 



Franz Bopp. 



Karl Eeichard Lepsius. 



Francois Pierre Guillaume 



s 

 GUIZOT. 



Leopold Ranke. 



Captain Larcom stated that the meteor noticed at the last 

 meeting had been observed in the county of Waterford by 

 Lady Stuart de Rothsay. Her Ladyship had just left the 

 glebe house of Kilmeadan, when the meteor caught her eye, 

 appearing to light on the belfry of the church. 



The Rev. Samuel Haughton mentioned its having been 

 seen in the Queen's County, and also in the County Carlow, 

 moving from the south-east to the north-west. One of his 

 informants stated that it became invisible at a considerable 

 altitude above the horizon. 



Sir William Betham read the following account of a 

 squared stone in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy, 

 sent there from Navan, in the County of Meath, by W. F. 

 Wakeman, Esq. 



" This stone appears to have been a portion of the shaft of 

 a market cross, and served to commemorate certain members 

 of the ancient family of Nangle, or De Angulo, Barons of the 

 Navan, in the Palatinate of Meath. 



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