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" They were discovered about two and a half feet under 

 the surface of a shallow bog, in the townland of HiQswood, 

 parish of KUconnell, county Galway ; they were found stuck 

 in a bunch in the ground, with the points down. No other 

 relics appeared near them. 



" I am yours very truly, 



"G. W. Hemans, 



" Chief Engineer. 

 " Edward Cllhborn, Esq., 

 ^'^ Assistant Secretary, R. I. A." 



Rev. Dr. Eobinson gave an account of a new anemometer. 



He would not have been induced to add another to the 

 numerous instruments of this kind abeady invented, but that 

 he thought an exposition of the principles which guided him 

 in its construction might be of use. The time, too, is aus- 

 picious, when, under the guidance of the President, we are 

 forming an association to study the nieteorology of Ireland. 

 That, he hoped, was an example which would be widely fol- 

 lowed, as in a most brilliant instance. Dr. Lloyd, in estab- 

 lishing the Dublin Magnetical Observatory, gave the first im- 

 pulse to that splendid course of magnetic investigation, which 

 is one of the proudest achievements of the present century. 

 Other branches of meteorology have been brought to high 

 perfection, but anemometry, one of the most important and 

 closely connected with all the rest, is far in the back-ground, — 

 not from neglect. Almost in the dawn of modern science we 

 find Derham and Hooke engaged with it ; and from them 

 to the present day, a succession of instruments, many highly 

 ingenious, show that it has been zealously, if not success- 

 fully cultivated. Yet it has borne but little fruit, be- 

 cause, as he thought, a wrong track had been followed in 

 observation. What we want to know respecting wind is 

 (along with its direction) its motion — the space through 



