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A vote of thanks to the President for his address was moved by 

 the Eev. J. H. Jellett, B. D., S. F. T. C. D. ; and seconded by the Eev. 

 Dr. Eussell, President of the Poyal College of St. Patrick, Maynooth, 

 and passed by acclamation. 



The Academy then adjourned. 



Monday, December 14, 1874. 

 "William Stok:es, M. D., F. R. S., President, in the Chair. 



The minutes of the previous meeting were read and signed. 



James Stewart, M. D. ; Eeuben J. Harvey, M. D. ; and Matthew 

 J. Purcell, Esq., were elected Members of the Academy. 



The Secretary laid on the Table the " Minutes of the Proceedings 

 of the Academy " for E'ovember, 1874. 



Dr. S. Ferguson, Q. C, Y. P., read a paper " On Further Ogham 

 Texts from Monataggart, county Cork." 



Two additional Ogham inscriptions on Stones recently dug up 

 from the underground chamber at Monataggart were described. These 

 were 



Dalagnt Maqi Dali, 

 and 



BKOmiANAS X O-I^ NETATTEENALUGOS. . 



the proper names in both being already known, but the groups from 

 the X onward in the longer text are not yet fully understood. 



Dr. Ferguson also read a description of the chamber at Monatag- 

 gart, and of the circumstances attending the discovery of the stones 

 by the Eev. John Quarry, D, D. The ashes found in the chamber 

 had been placed in the hands of the Secretary of the Academy for 

 analysis. 



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

 Polite Literature and Antiquities.] 



Mr. "VV. Archer read a paper " Descriptive of the apothecia and 

 spores found by him in two species of Sct/tonema and two of Sirosiphon, 

 and one of Stigonema, all of them specifically different from any of the 

 few similar cases hitherto recorded." 



According to the older view that these are the fruits of the species of 

 Scytoncmatous and Sirosiphonaceous Algae in question, the cases 



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