%rd December, 1889. 



J. H. Greenhill, Esq., Mus. Bac, in the Chair. 



John Vinycomb, Esq., read a paper entitled 

 SOME REMARKS ON DEAN SWIFT'S AUTOGRAPH, 

 AND THE SEAL OF THE DEANERY OF ST. 

 PATRICK'S, DUBLIN. 



The Lecturer stated that the seal in question appears 

 to have been appended to a parchment deed, but has been 

 cut off by some reckless autograph hunter for the sake of the 

 signature. Considering, perhaps, that all the legal responsi- 

 bilities referred to by the document are at an end, they 

 are obsolete and of no account, and the only thing worth pre- 

 serving is the seal and autograph of the celebrated Dean of 

 St. Patrick's, whom everybody has heard of. A small portion 

 of the bottom part of the sheet or skin remains, through which 

 the attachments of the seal were interlaced before sealing, and 

 the name written across the two portions in the usual manner. 

 Mr. Vinycomb then gave an interesting description of the seal, 

 which was impressed upon the paper over a moistened wafer, 

 of which several examples were shown, a fashion which was 

 introduced about the close of the sixteenth century. 



John Brown, Esq., read 

 NOTES ON THE MUSICAL SAND OF EIGG. 



Some attention has recently been drawn to the occurrence 

 of " Musical Sand " in various localities. Its existence has 



