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ed to the whole of Ireland, would demand an expense fax* 

 beyond the means of the Society. 



Still, however, they think it an object well worthy of adop* 

 tion, to make a beginning, to choose some limited, district; 

 to give it in charge to some person of undisputed science, 

 to request from him a map on a large scale, drawn with a 

 View to represent the mineralogical characters of the dis- 

 trict, accompanied with sections of the strata, particularly 

 in the vicinity of mines, elucidated by a copious memoir, 

 and accompanied with collections of specimens of the prin- 

 cipal substances referred to. If such a beginning were once 

 obtained, printed, and circulated by the Society, it might 

 serve as a useful pattern for farther undertakings ; and if 

 executed with that degree of science, which the commtttee 

 flatter themselves with being able to obtain, might possibly 

 appear of such national importance, as to obtain for the So- 

 ciety more ample funds for its further prosecution. 



The committee have thought it their duty to consider 

 which of their present funds are more particularly applica- 

 ble for the purpose, and in the first place they propose the 

 application of the ,£200, which had been appropriated to 

 the execution of the survey, which they have already re- 

 commended should be relinquished. A more ample fund 

 seems to be available in a part of the j61300 reserved in the 

 estimate toward the completing the statistical surveys of the 

 County sur- thirteen counties which remain to be undertaken. Of these 

 * e Y s - they understand but two or three are in any forwardness; 



and unle s the execution of the remainder should be ver}- 

 superior to that of many of those which have already been 

 obtained, the committee are of opinion, that such a survey 

 as they now propose would be an application of the funds of 

 the Society incalculably more beneficial. 



In selecting a person for the undertaking, the choice is 

 ' necessarily confined among very few. Your committee are 

 of opinion, that Mr. Richard Griffith Jun. is eminently qua- 

 lified for the undertaking; and to h'un (subject to the ap- 

 probation of the Society) they have proposed to undertake 

 it. Your committee could have wished to make an arrange- 

 ment with Mr. Griffith with respect to the amount of re- 

 muneration, which he should finally receive; but o« suggest- 

 ing 



