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MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1863. 

 The Veuy Rev. Chaeles Geaves, D. D., Presideut, in the Chair. 

 Charles IN'eville Bagot, Esq., was elected a member of the Academy. 

 E. E. Maddeist, M. E.I.A., read the following paper: — 



On AlSrCIENT LiTEEAET EeATJDS AND EOEGEEIES IN SpAIN AND ItALT, AND 

 THEIE BEAEINGS ON EVENTS EECOEDED IN IeISH AND OTHEE CeLTIC 



Annals. 



1. Joannes Annius de Yiterbo, a Dominican friar: — His pretended 

 discovery of long lost works of Berosus and Manetho, and of various 

 fragments of celebrated writers of antiquity ; his fabrication of inscrip- 

 tions purporting to be ancient, on marble slabs, in the latter part of the 

 fifteenth century. 



2. Curzio Inghiramio : — His pretended discovery of Etruscan in- 

 scriptions in the seventeenth century. 



3. Eorged predictions and remarkable literary frauds connected with 

 the discovery of the remains of St. Cathaldus, in TTaples, in the fifteenth 

 century. 



4. Eather Higuera:— His fictitious Ecclesiastical Annals of the 

 Church of Spain, ascribed to Elavias Lucius Dexter, a cotemporary and 

 friend of St. Jerome, of the fifth century. 



5. Fabulosas Historias, not solely products of foreign lands and of 

 former ages. 



The migration from Spain into Ireland, and the establishment, in the 

 latter country, of a Spanish colony some centuries prior to Christianity, 

 and the alleged descent from that colony of a long line of rulers of Scy- 

 tho-Iberian origin, referred to in Irish annals, and largely treated of by 

 Keating, O'Elaherty, M'Geoghegan, and O'Connor, find strong confir- 

 mation in Spanish chronicles, and the writings of several historians of 

 Spain. We find in these Spanish references (which I insert in extenso 

 in another paper), many important notices of this migration, and the 

 protracted and widely-spread calamity of a great drought and dearth in 

 Spain which preceded it, of which, strange to say, little is known, or 

 at least noticed, in our historical literature. 



Of the great drought and dearth which prevailed over Spain for a 

 period of twenty-six years, and the consequent migrations fi-om the 

 north-western shores of Spain (according to several of the Spanish his- 

 torians), we find accounts, more or less detailed, in the works of Elorian 

 D'Ocampo, Garibay, Escolan, De la Huerta y Yega, Gandara, Eray 

 Erancesco Diago, Eray Erancesco Sota, Doctor Erancesco de Pisa, Mari- 

 ana, Mohedanno, &c. 



But in several of these chronicles we find the fabulous histories of 

 Joannes Annius de Yiterbo have corrupted the Spanish annals from the 

 fifteenth century to an astorishing extent. Suppositious lines of kings 

 from Tubal down to the time of the Eomans, and chronological data 



