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the dogs' quarter. In commemoration of the event, O'Dowd 

 had the annexed representation of it carved on the stone, and 

 placed in the wall of his baronial residence. 



The Secretary read the following "Collection of Notes on 

 the early History of Science in Ireland." By James Orchard 

 Halliwell, Esq., F. R. S., F. S. A., F. R. A. S., &c. 



" The following scraps on a subject which has never yet 

 been treated of by any writer with whose works I am ac- 

 quamted, although unfolding no views of any great impor- 

 tance, will, it is believed, form a subject of discussion inte- 

 resting to all natives of Ireland, who would think favourably 

 of the intellectual character and resources of their country- 

 men. 



" The earliest remnant of Irish science that I have met 

 with, is contained in MS. Arundel, 333, in the British 

 Museum, which contains several medical and astrological 

 tracts in the Irish language of the thirteenth century, 

 together with similar tracts of the fourteenth and fifteenth 

 centuries. These tracts are of a similar nature with contem- 

 porary manuscripts written in England and on the continent. 



