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May 13th, 1850. 



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



in the Chair. 



Hugh Carlisle, Esq., M. D., was elected a member of the 

 Academy. 



A letter was read from Charles Leslie, Esq., Castle Les- 

 lie, county Monaghan, accompanying a wooden implement 

 which had been discovered in a bog by some men cutting 

 turf, and whicb Mr. Leslie presented to the Academy. 



r Sir William Betham read a notice from a Manuscript in 

 the British Museum, in the handwriting of Sir James Ware, 

 in which it was stated that Dr. John Leslie, Bishop of Ra- 

 phoe, when building an episcopal palace there, pulled down a 

 round tower or pyramid, which stood at Raphoe, and disco- 

 vered the bones of a man beneath it. Sir William observed, 

 that the letter demonstrated the existence of a round tower 

 formerly at Raphoe. He had not been aware of that fact 

 before, and probably many more round towers formerly existed 

 in the country than were generally supposed. 



Rev. Dr. Todd exhibited a curious piece of sculpture ia 

 white marble, being a representation of the crucifixion. He 

 had purchased it from a man who informed him that it had 

 for many years been in the possession of a family named 

 Meehan, in the county of Kildare, and that it had been found 

 in a churchyard in the town of Kildare. It evidently was of 

 very considerable antiquity, probably of the thirteenth cen- 

 tury. 



Dr. Todd also exhibited a similar sculpture, purchased 



