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ing to him, (subject to the approbation of the Society) to 

 accept of the i?200 above alluded to, as soon as his map and 

 memoir should be extcuted and approved of. Mr. Griffith 

 on one hand setting a higher value on his time as a profes- 

 sional man, than the Society could at present aflbrd to give, 

 but on the other hand not desiring- to make this undertak- 

 ing an object of emolument, prefers to submit to the So- 

 ciety, at the completion of the work, an account of the mere 

 expenses incurred in its prosecution, proposing that the 

 Society should discharge the amount on accepting of his 

 work; and your committee, considering the great liberality 

 of the proceeding on the part of Mr. Griffith, and the great 

 advantages which may be expected from its execution, ear- 

 nestly recommend it to the adoption of the Society. 



Mr. Leslie Foster, who made the report, stated, that he The survey 

 conceived the committee were fully justified in selecting ^ ^^nt- 

 Mr. Griffith for this undertaking, as he had heard the late fith. 

 Mr. Greville, one of the first mineralogists in Europe, who 

 was a patron of the Geological Society in Londcm, and Y r ice- 

 president of the Royal Society, declare, that Mr. Griffith's 

 professional acquirements, as a mineralogical engineer, ren- 

 dered him fitter than any other man in Great Britain or 

 Ireland, that he was acquainted with, to make a mineralo- 

 gical survey; as such an undertaking required an intimate 

 knowledge of the most approved methods of working mines, s 

 as well as of the sciences of geology and mineralogy. 



This report of the committee was adopted accordingly, 

 and confirmed by the society at large. 



Mr. Davy intends to visit Dublin next winter, and give Mr. Dary, 

 a course of electi o-chmeical lectures on his late discoveries. 



ERRATA. 



For p. 133, read pages 133 and 156, 



muriatic muriate. 



180, note before the proportions add reversed. 



181, lines 1 & 3 from hot* for sulphate of read sulphuric, 



