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with a preternatural show of flower and fruitage ; but his reputation has 

 been a growing one, and it will be a lasting jone, because he also has 

 done things which will endure, 



" Crescit occulto velut arbor sevo Fama," 



It has struck its roots deep in the affection and respect of Irish hearts ; 

 and it will continue to flourish there, unless we fall upon those evil days 

 in which men lose all right to have hope from the living, because they 

 have become careless and cold in paying] honour to their illustrious 

 dead. 



The ballot for the election of a Member of Council to serve on the 

 Committee of Antiquities having been scrutinized in the face of the 

 Academy, the President reported that Lord Talbot de Malahide was duly 

 elected to the place vacant on the Council. 



The Secretary presented, on the part of the Eev. Robert King, a 

 copy of the " Essay on the Primacy of Armagh" in the form in which 

 it originally appeared as a portion of the 1 ' Armagh Guardian" news- 

 paper. 



MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1866. 



The Yert Rev. Charles Graves, D. D., President, in the Chair. 



The Rev. Samuel Hatjghton, M. D., Fellow of Trinity College, 

 Dublin, read the following paper : — 



On the Meteoric Stone that pell at Dundrtjm, County oe Tippe- 

 rary, on the 12th August, 1865. 



The Meteoric Stone, that forms the [subject^ of the present [Paper, 

 fell near Dundrum, county of Tipperary, under circumstances that 

 were described to me as follows, by the man in whose garden it fell : — 



statement of eyewitness. 



" I, John Johnson, of the parish of Clonoulty, near Cashel, county 

 Tipperary, was walking across my potato garden, at the back of my 

 house, in company with Michael Fahy and William Furlong, on the 

 12th of August, 1865, at seven p. m., when I heard a clap, like the 

 shot out of a cannon, very quick, and not like thunder ; this was fol- 

 lowed by a buzzing noise, which continued for about a quarter of an 

 hour, when it came over our heads; and on looking up, we saw an ob- 

 ject falling down in a slanting direction. "We were frightened at its 

 speed, which was so great that we could scarcely notice it ; but after 

 it fell, we proceeded to look for it, and found it at a distance of. forty 

 yards, half buried in the ground, where it had struck the top of a po- 

 tato drill. We were some time in looking for it (a longer time than 

 that during which we had heard the noise). On taking up the stone, we 

 found it warm, milk warm, but not hot enough to be inconvenient. The 

 next day it was given up to Lord Hawarden. 



" John Johnson." 



