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The special thanks of the Academy were voted to Cap- 

 tain Portlock for his large donation of Irish Antiquities. 



February 8, 1841. 



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



Mr. J. Huband Smith submitted to the inspection of the 

 Academy the sword and other iron weapons, brass mantle-pin, 

 &c., with which he had been favouredbytheCommander of the 

 Forces, and which were discovered, with a human skeleton, 

 at Kilmainham some years since. He further produced a 

 still more perfect iron sword, which was also most obligingly 

 lent to him by Captain Hort of the Royal Hospital. This, 

 too, had been found about eight years a:go in the same vici- 

 nity, and under similar circumstances with the weapons 

 above mentioned. 



The remarkable similarity of these, and all the incidents 

 of the interments which they appear to have accompanied, 

 with the remains found in the county of Antrim, described 

 in the paper which Mr. Smith read before the Academy, on 

 the 25th of January, as well as with the engraving and de- 

 scription of the Gaulish (Celtic) weapons, the account of 

 which by M. Mongez, Keeper of the Museum of St. 

 Genevieve at Paris, he had also on that occasion alluded to, 

 together with the invariable discovery of bronze, or brass 

 ornaments, unquestionably Celtic, in connexion with them, 

 induced Mr. Smith to adhere to his opinion, that all 

 these various remains were to be referred to people of Celtic 

 race. 



If this conclusion be just, the inference would seem to 

 follow, that in the skeletons accompanying these weapons, 

 &c., an opportunity is offered to the student of ethnography 



