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illustrations, rather than allow its publication to appear in any other 

 form, or in any other place. * 



IY. That the Committee of Antiquities should obtain from the most 

 competent persons : — 



1. An analysis of the earth in which the carved bone flakes, iron, 

 bronze, glass, amber, &c, were found ; 



2. A descriptive report on the classification of the sea shells ; 



3. A similar report on the sea pebbles ; 



4. An analytic report on the human aand other bones, and the various 

 positions and places in which they were found ; 



5. A report on the apparent anachronisms in the admixture of 

 the stone, bronze, iron, glass, amber, &c, found in cairn H ; and that 

 these reports be given to me for insertion in my next and concluding 

 paper on the examination of these ancient remains; and, 



6. That some competent person be directed to make search for his- 

 torical allusion to these ancient tombs, as it is not probable that so 

 remarkable a place could have escaped all notice in the bardic annals 

 of the country. 



The "Very llev. the President exhibited and described, and made 

 some observations upon, the orrjamented bone articles found in the 

 cairns on the Loughcrew Hills, and placed in his hands by Mr. Conwell. 



The marked thanks of the Academy were returned to J. W. L. 

 Kaper, Esq., of Loughcrew, for the liberality, earnestness, and zeal 

 which he evinced in furthering the researches of Mr. Conwell, and for 

 his consideration in presenting to the Museum of the Academy the large 

 and varied amount of antiquarian remains which were obtained in the 

 process of excavation of the Cairns on the Loughcrew Hills ; as also to 

 Charles Hamilton, Esq., for his kind and valuable services in giving .--^ 

 effect to the measures adopted upon the occasion. \_/ 

 4^ Mr. George Y. Du Noyer, exhibited a large collection of Drawings 

 made by him of the Antiquarian Remains discovered and explored on 

 the Loughcrew Hills. 



The thanks of the Academy were returned to Mr. Du Noyer. 



The Secretary, on the part of the Editor, presented the "Register 

 of the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland for 1866." 



The thanks of the Academy were voted to the donor. 



The Rev. Samuel Haughton, M. D., read his second paper " On the 

 Semidiurnal Tides of the Coasts of Ireland — Castletownsend." 



* As the funds placed at the disposal of the Council of the Royal Irish Academy are 

 inadequate to meet the cost of publishing, with suitable illustrations, the very extensive 

 collection of symbols or mystic characters contained on the inscribed stones on the Lough- 

 crew hills, I have only to regret my own personal inability to supply the defect. It is, 

 however, to be hoped that at some future and not distant day funds will be available, 

 , either from public or from private sources, for illustrating fully (in which consists the chief 

 value of such discoveries) these comprehensive and most important additions to our ar- 

 chaic literature. 



