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I beg to present this collection of Drawings of objects of antiqua- 

 rian interest (many of which are falling into decay) to the Library of the 

 Academy, with a view to its forming the fourth volume of donations 

 of a similar kind made to the Academy on three former occasions. — 

 G. Y. D. 



A collection of miscellaneous Donations was presented, accompanied 

 by the following explanatory letter from W. E. Wilde, Esq, (V. P.), 

 addressed to the Secretary of the Academy, which was read in his absence 

 by J. T. Gilbert, Esq. :— 



Deae Sik, — In the names of the undermentioned noblemen and gen- 

 tlemen, I beg to present the following donations to the Library and Mu- 

 seum of the Academy : — 



Erom the Marquis of Kildare, The Earls of Kildare and their An- 

 cestors, with the Addenda, from 1659 to 1773 (new edition) the former 

 edition of which I had the honour of presenting in 1861. 



Erom Lord Earnham, a handsomely bound copy of the Earnham 

 Descents, from King Henry III.," a genealogical work descriptive of the 

 Maxwell family, printed at Cavan, in 1 862, for private circulation. The 

 donation is enhanced by the autograph revisions of the author. 



On the part of George Porter, M.D., a bound collection of twenty- 

 four government broad-sheets, descriptive of the Irish EebeUion, between 

 the 24th of May, and the 28th September, 1798; and consisting of public 

 notices and letters from Generals Lake, Asgill, Dundas, Duff, Johnston, 

 Gosford, Keedham, and many other persons, to Lord Castlereagh ; and 

 containing accounts of the various engagements with the rebel forces in 

 the counties of Antrim, Mayo, Longford, Carlow, Kildare, Wicklow, 

 "Wexford, and Dublin. 



I also beg to present a very ancient Icelandic medical manuscript, 

 written on thick vellum, and consisting of seventy-three small quarto 

 folios, which I was given by the late lamented Professor Siegfried; as I 

 consider our Library the most suitable place for it, and I am anxious to 

 associate, even in this small matter, the name of so distinguished a scho- 

 lar with that of the Royal Irish Academy. It contains some MS. philo- 

 logical notes by the late Professor. 



Erom W. Wakeman, Esq., a specimen of Erench and Co.'s Tuam 

 bank-note, issued in 1812. 



A photograph of Cahill's medallion of the late John Mitchell Kem- 

 ble, which has been recently placed on the tomb of that distinguished 

 antiquary, historian, and philologer, in Mount Jerome Cemetery. 



Erom Lord Earnham, a highly finished conical bone piercer, five 

 inches long, found fifteen feet deep in a sand pit in the townland of Clon- 

 nygonnell, parish of Kilmore, county of Cavan. The circumstance of 

 any remains of man's handiwork being found either in drift or gravel, 

 having of late years formed the subject of scientific investigation, invests 

 this article with peculiar interest. 



