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send, Esq., Alexander Taylor, M. D., and George Yeates, 

 Esq., were elected Members. 



Lieutenant-Colonel Jones (R. E.), on the part of the 

 Shannon Commissioners, presented to the Museum a collection 

 of ancient bronze weapons, ornaments, and other articles, 

 found recently in the excavations made in the bed of the 

 Shannon. And he offered, on the part of the Commission, to 

 assist the Committee of Antiquities in conducting any anti- 

 quarian researches they might propose in the neighbourhood 

 of that river. Whereupon it was 



Resolved, — That the Committee of Antiquities be re- 

 quested to put themselves in communication with the Shannon 

 Commissioners, with reference to their obliging proposal. 



John Anster, LL.D., read the conclusion of the paper by 

 the Rev. James Wills, " On Dugald Stewart's Explanation of 

 certain Processes in the Human Understanding." 



Mr. Wills commenced by referring to his former paper, 

 in which he had endeavoured to rectify the elementary prin- 

 ciple, from which he considered the true theory of the in- 

 tellectual powers as being deducible. As in that paper he had 

 explained the origin and formation of those fixed associations 

 which were the results of habit ; so in the present paper it 

 was his purpose to deduce from the same primary law the 

 class of unfixed and accidental associations. 



Before entering upon this statement, the Author dwelt at 

 some length on the nature of the method by which he had 

 arrived at his results. This he described as being, in the 

 strictest sense, a method of observation. He had, he said, 

 excluded all consideration of the metaphysical writers ; and 

 though he might coincide with many of their opinions, he 

 would disclaim any authority, or ground of inference, but the 

 simplest and most scrupulous investigation of the facts, which 

 he would endeavour so to exemplify as to convey his results 



