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Tlie ballots for the annual election of President, Council, and Officers, 

 having been scrutinized in the face of the Academy, the President re- 

 ported that the following gentlemen were duly elected : — 



Peesident The Very Eev. Dean Graves, D.J). 



CoTJisrciL. — Pev. George Salmon, D. D. ; Rev. Samuel Haughton, M. A. ; 

 Rev. J. H. Jellett, M. A. ; Robt. W. Smith, M. D. ; Rev. H. Lloyd, D.D. ; 

 William K. Sullivan, M. D.; and Robert M'Donnell, M. D. : on the 

 Committee of Science. 



Rev. Samuel Butcher, D.D. ; Rev. Joseph Carson, D. D. ; John P. 

 Waller, LL.D. ; John Kells Ingram, LL. D. ; Digby P. Starkey, Esq. ; 

 John Anster, LL. D. ; and the Right Hon. Joseph TvTapier, LL. D. : on 

 the Committee of Polite Literature. 



John T. Gilbert, Esq. ; Rev. William Reeves, D. D. ; Eugene Curry, 

 Esq. ; William R. Wilde, Esq.; George Petrie, LL.D. ; W. H. Hardinge, 

 Esq. ; and the Right Hon. Lord Talbot de Malahide : on the Committee 

 of Antiquities. 



Teeasuhee. — Rev. Joseph Carson, D.D. 



Seceetaey of the Academy Rev. William Reeves, D. D. 



Seceetaey of the CoraciL. — John Kells Ingram, LL. D. 



Seceetaey of Eoeeign Coeeespondence. — Rev. Samuel Butcher, 

 D.D. 



LiBEAEiAK. — John T. Gilbert, Esq. 



Cleek, Assistant Libeaeian, ai^d Cueatoe of the Museum. — Ed- 

 ward CHbborn, Esq. 



MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1862. 

 The Veey Rev. Chaeles Geaves, D. D., President, in the Chair. 



Andrew Armstrong, Esq. ; John Campbell, Esq., M. B. ; John Strat- 

 ford Kirwan, Esq. ; and George Porte, Esq., C.E. ; were elected members 

 of the Academy. 



Mr. J. T. GiLBEET, on the part of R. R. Maddei?^, Esq., read the fol- 

 lowing paper : — 



On ceetain Ceomlechs in ISToetheen Afeica. 



(Plate XYI.) 



In the month of December, 1861, while sojourning in Algiers, the exist- 

 ence in that colony of some ancient Pagan monuments of supposed Druidi- 

 cal origin was brought to my knowledge by a brief notice of them in the 

 ''Revue Africaine," for JN'ov., 1861 (^^"0. 30, p. 38) — an archaeological 

 journal of considerable merit, published in Algiers, under the direction of 

 the President of the " Societe Historique Algerienne," Monsieur Ber- 

 brugger, an eminent antiquarian and oriental scholar. Referring to the 



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