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A. Jones, President of the Eoyal Hibernian Academy, to be placed in 

 its great Hall. \ Dr. Churchill was a man of sterling integrity and of 

 great kindliness of nature, and was respected and esteemed both by 



the public and by his professional brethren. 



Mr. Conwell was an intelligent and industrious student of our 

 ^National Antiquities. Several Papers of his appear in our Proceed- 

 ings : amongst others, those on the Identity of the Ancient Cemetery 

 at Loughcrew, in the County of Meath ; on hitherto undescribed 

 Antiquarian Ptemains at SHebh-na-Caillighe, in the same county ; on 

 Sepulchral Cairns on the Loughcrew Hills ; and on the Lia Pail at Tara. 



llr. Denis H. Kelly served for several years on the Council of the 

 Academy, and his gentle and kindly manners must have left agreeable 

 recollections in the minds of many of our llembers. He took 

 much interest in Irish llanuscript literature, and in our ancient archi- 

 tectural and other o^ational memorials. He contributed to our Pro- 

 ceedings Papers on the Strokestown Crannog; on a Terraced Hill near 

 Castleblakeney ; on Inscribed Stones at Puerty, in the County of 

 Roscommon ; on two Manuscripts of Duald Mac Pirbis ; and on the 

 Time and Topography of the Eruighean da Choga. He compiled and 

 presented to our Library an Alphabetical Index to Mr. O'Curry's 

 Catalogue of the Academy's Irish Manuscripts. He also presented to 

 the Academy the Perguson Manuscripts, being a series of Extracts 

 from the Memoranda Eolls of the Exchequer and other record 

 authorities. 



Mr. Henry "Wilson, who was so highly and so justly esteemed, and 

 whose early death was so deeply regretted by his medical brethren and 

 the public, gave much attention to the study of Irish Antiquities. 

 He contributed to our Proceedings a Description of an Ancient Bronze 

 Shield, which is now in the Museum of the Academy. 



