416 Royal Irish Academy. 



and tkree in the Section of Polite Literature and Antiquities : — 



Samuel Rawson Gardiner, elected 16tli March, 1895. 



Emil Hiibner, elected 16th March, 1893, 



Eight Rev. William Stubbs, elected 16th March, 1876. 



The annual visitation of the Museum was held on 6th March, 

 1902. The principal changes in ai-rangement are the bringing 

 together of gi'oups of Antiquities found in the same place, the 

 arrangement of the gold ornaments on velvet, and the separation 

 and re-arrangement of the copper Tveapons. 



It is proposed in future to incorporate in the Annual Report a brief 

 Register of the additions made to the collections of the Royal Irish 

 Academy (deposited in the Museum of the IS'ational Science and Art 

 Institutions), the increase and study of -which forms a very important 

 branch of the Academy's work. The Register drawn up by the Curator, 

 Mr. Gr. Coffey, includes the whole of the additions made in 1901, this 

 arrangement being more convenient than that of the official year 

 extending from March 1901 to March 1902. 



REa. IS'os. Additions to the Royal Irish Academy's Collections for 1901. 



1901 



— Antiquities in old collections not identified with previous register 



^~ numbers. 



12-40 -^ collection of objects from the crannog of Glassmullagh, near 



Ennisknien, Co. Fermanagh (Ordnance Sheet 27), consisting of frag- 

 ments of pottery, whetstones, polishers, and stone disc, a small stone 

 celt, a fragment of stone ring or ajpnlet, a bone comb, bronze hai^p- 

 pins, an iron knife, an iron axe-head, &c. Presented by Thomas 



PluTlkett, M.E.I.A. 



41 A bronze dagger in its original horn handle; found in a bog 



near Ballymoney, Co. Antrim. This is a very interesting speci- 

 men, and one of the most perfect examples of a hafted dagger of the 

 Bronze Age. The dagger was of the usual triangular fonn with 

 three rivets at the base. The gi'eater part of the blade at both sides 

 of the mid-rib has been corroded, but the full breadth of the blade 

 remains in the part covered by the hafting. The handle is formed in 



