PROCEEDINGS 



THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. 



1841. No. 27. 



January 25, 1841. 

 SIR Wm. R. HAMILTON, LL.D., President, in the Chair. 



The Rev. Dr. Todd, V.P., made some remarks on two 

 large medallion busts, with Greek inscriptions, which are 

 preserved in the Manuscript Room of the Library of Trinity 

 College. These busts have been in the possession of the 

 College for upwards of a century, but there is no record in 

 the archives of the University stating how or from whom 

 they were obtained. In the Appendix to the Preface of 

 Gudius's Inscriptiones Antiques,* the editors of that work 

 have given a list of inscriptions, which they state to have 

 been furnished by Herman Van der Hoorst, Chaplain to 

 the Dutch in Smyrna ; and, in this list, the very busts now 

 in Dublin are thus described, (No. XIII.) : 



" No. XIII. Smyrnae in domo cujusdam Grseci Zachariae 



* The full title of this work is as follows ; — " Antiquae Inscriptiones olim a 

 Marquardo Gudio collectae, nuper a loanne Koolio digestse, hortatu consilioque 

 Joannis Georgii Grcevii ; nunc a Francisco Hesselio editee, cum annotationibus 

 eorum." Leovard. 1731. Fol. 



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