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friends will sympathize with me, in having (in however humble a 

 degree) taken a part in bringing about the fulfilment of the wish 

 I have often heard him utter, that his Museum might be here ; and 

 in the assurance that here his name will live as a benefactor to his 

 country, and an example to our gentry, by whom the study and 

 preservation of our antiquities have been (I must say) disgracefully 

 neglected. 



" But on public grounds, most of all, I would congratulate the 

 Academy on having now laid the foundation of a National Museum, 

 which will doubtless be the means of preserving many articles of 

 value and interest from destruction — of bringing together the many 

 curious relics of the past, which are now in the hands of private 

 families or individuals, and perhaps also of awakening the attention 

 of the Government of the country, to the importance (too long for- 

 gotten or overlooked) of forming, upon a liberal and extensive basis, 

 a really National Museum of the Antiquities of Ireland." 



Resolved, — That this Report be entered on the Minutes, 

 and published in the Proceedings. 



Resolved, — That the special thanks of the Academy be 

 given to those subscribers to the Dawson Fund who are not 

 members of the Academy.* 



Resolved, — On the recommendation of Council, — That 

 the plan of the new Board Room proposed by Mr. Murray 

 and Mr. Owen, be approved of by the Academy. 



December 12. 



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



Rev. Dr. Todd, V. P. on the part of the Knight of Glin, pre- 

 sented to the Academy a gold coin, with an Arabic inscrip- 

 tion, found in the wall of a house in the townland of Killeny, 

 near Glin. 



* See List of Subscribers in Appendix No. I. 



