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1881. Description of a Himyaritic Seal engraved on Sard and on Babylonian 

 Inscribed Cylinders. 

 ,, On an ancient Bronze Bracelet of Torque pattern. 

 ,, Further account of the Sepulchral Mound near Donny brook. 



1884. On Eock Crystal Globes or Spheres. 



,, On an ancient Cross-bough or "Latch." 



,, Description of a large Silver Plaque commemorative of Martin Luther at 



"Wittenberg, a.d. 1517. 

 ,, On a series of Playing Cards relating to the Political History of Dr. 



Sacheverell in the reign of Queen Anne. 



1885. On a Shale Chark found in the Peddle River. 

 ,, On three Bronze Celts found in County Mayo. 



,, On an early Ecclesiastical Seal (probably 14th or 15th century). 



1886. On the Dublin Stocks and Pillory. 



1886. On a Bronze Cooking Vessel found in a bog near Kells. 



1887. On the Brass Matrix of an Augustinian Seal. 



1888. On Testoons of Henry YIII. 



1889. On an Irish Crozier, probably the missing Crozier of St. Ciaran, of Clon- 



macnoise. 

 ,, On a Polished Stone Implement of novel form. 



1890. On a series of Coloured Drawings of Sciibed Stones in the Loughcrew 



Cairns by the late G. V. Du Noyer. 

 ,, Note on Medals of St. Vergil and St. Rudbert, struck at Salzburg. 

 1892. On " Sickles " (so called) of Bronze, found in Ireland. 



,, On a Skull from Lincoln, and on Iiish Crania. 

 1895 (with E. Johnson). On five Gold Fibulaj lately discovered in the South of 



Ireland, and on the Art Processes used in their manufacture. 

 1898. (with E. Johnson). On the manufacture of a Gold Fibula. 



Thomas Preston was bora in Kilmore, county Armagh, on May 

 23rcl, 1860. He graduated in the Eoyal University of Ireland in 

 1884, and in the University of Dublin in 1885. His academic career 

 was highly distinguished ; he was elected to a Science Scholarship in 

 Trinity College in 1884, and in the year following he obtained Senior 

 Moderatorships in Mathematics and in Experimental Science. His 

 brilliant answering at the MacCullagh Prize Examination (1888), 



