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Matisconensis in Gallia, ubi ilium reprehenderant et respondere jusse- 

 rant de praepostera sua observatione RitusPaschalis temporis, qui diver- 

 sus erat et adversans ritui canonico Romanae Ecelesise.^ Aiebat etiam 

 P. Patricius Martyr, se selecta qu£Bdam habuisse de rebus nostratibus, 

 ex singulari quodam et abs se viso descriptoque cum esset ipse Ratis- 

 bonas in Bavaria. 0 utinam selecta ista legissem ! 



''Atque bic scribendi jam finem coactus facio quod rev era diebus 

 hisce, et multis prseteritis, etiam mensibus, occuper in expediendis intri- 

 catis conscientise casibus (assidue accidentibus), et componendis dissidiis 

 nunc istorum, nunc illorum etc. Vale fselix, mi Pater, et jure tuo ad- 

 versum me utere, qui prsesto semper ero pro viribus et opportunitate ad 

 gratificandum Tibi, quern cum omnibus Vestris amanter saluto, Deoque 

 commendo, quem ut mihi sit Ipse semper propitius, Oro et oretis. 



^'Dublinii, 31 Janu., 1640, stylo Eomano. 



''Servusin Christo, 



Stephanits Yittjs, e Societate Jesu." 



(Endorsed in a more recent hand on the original letter,) 



" Pretiosa Epistola insignis Antiquarii P. Stephani "Whyte Soc. Jesu, ad 

 P. Colganum." 



The thanks of the Academy were returned to Count Mac Donnell. 



Rev, Dr. Lloyd read a paper, in continuation, On Earth-Currents 

 and their Laws." 



The Rev. Samuel Haughton presented the Original MS. Draft of the 

 Observed and Calculated Diurnal Tides of the Coast of Ireland for the 

 year 1850-51, contained in 84 Tables. 



The Rev. "William Reeves, D. D., presented an Index, in MS., of the 

 seven published volumes of the Proceedings of the Academy, prepared 

 by himself. 



The marked thanks of the Academy were presented to the several 

 donors. 



The Academy then adjourned. 



* St. Columbanus' Sermones and Epistolcs were copied by Fleming from manuscripts 

 in Columbanus' monastery of Bobio. These, together with the opuseula of this illustrious 

 Father of the Irish Church, and a valuable body of illustrative matter, were prepared for 

 the press by Fleming, and eventually published by Thomas Sirinus, or O'Sherrin, in small 

 folio, Lovanii, 1667. 



