ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. 



MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS. 



Monday, Novembek 9, 1874. 

 WiLirAM Stokes, M. D., F, R. S., President, in the Chair. 



Samuel Ferguson, LL. D., Y.P., read a paper " On the Ogham- 

 inscribed Stone at Monataggart, Co. Cork." 



The author, in applying to this text, which had been considered 

 undecypherable, the same method of translation adopted by the present 

 Bishop of Limerick in the case of the Camp inscription, read it 



FEQEEa MOQOI GLTJNLEGGET, 



identifying Feqreq with the name Fiachra as written by Adamnan, 

 and assigning the meaning of "the Kneeler " to Glenlugget, which he 

 took to be a name in religion ; and expressed his belief that the monu- 

 ment is Christian. 



[This paper will appear in the Proceedings, Series II. Yol. I., 

 Polite Literature and Antiquities.] 



A letter was read by the Secretary from R. R. Brash, Esq., com- 

 menting on Dr. Ferguson's paper. 



Mr. H. W. Mackintosh read a paper " On the Muscular Anatomy 

 of Cholcepus didactylusP 



[This paper will appear in the Proceedings, Series II., Vol. II., 

 Science, Part 1.] 



Alexander Macalister, M. D., read a paper " On two new species of 

 Pentastoma." 



The first of these P. imperatoris was found in the lung and perito- 

 neal cavity of Boa imperator, from South America; the second P. 

 aonycis in the peritoneal cavity of Aonyx leptonyx, yar.B. major, from 

 the River Indus. 



[This paper will appear, with illustrations, in the Proceedings, Series 

 II. Vol. II. Science, Part 1.] 



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