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great measure attained, especially if weights and measurements 
were added to each object portrayed. 
‘‘ For the purpose it will be necessary that a sum not exceeding 
£50 be placed at the disposal of the Committee. 
‘“‘ Whilst the Register and Pictorial Catalogue are in course of 
completion, as above recommended, the Committee will take the ne- 
cessary steps for a permanent classification of the Museum, with a 
view to the preparation of the Descriptive Catalogue.” 
On the 7th of July, 1852, the Committee held a meeting, at 
which Mr. Clibborn reported that 5373 articles had been already 
entered in the Number Book or Register of the Museum, and that 
about 500 articles still remained to be entered, which it was then 
thought could have been done before the ensuing Session of the 
Academy. 
At the same meeting scales and weights were ordered to be pur- 
chased, and the whole of the gold ornaments were afterwards accu- 
rately weighed by Dr. Aquilla Smith and Mr. Clibborn, previous to 
their being exhibited at the Dublin Exhibition. 
Whilst the Museum remained at the Exhibition nothing could 
of course be done, and since its return the first care was to place it 
in the new room now prepared for it; which necessarily took up 
much of Mr. Clibborn’s time and attention, and prevented his com- 
pleting the Register as was at first proposed. 
After the return of the Museum the Committee inspected the 
numerical Register, and instructed Mr. Clibborn to have the columns 
headed weights, and where procured, filled up. 
Much difficulty, however, has been found in completing these 
entries. Mr. Clibborn reports that many of the numbers formerly 
pasted on the articles have come off, owing to the dampness of the 
new rooms, and that this accident has necessarily occasioned much 
difficulty and delay. 
The weights of all the gold and most of the silver articles, how- 
ever, have been inserted in the Register. 
The numbers have also been attached to the drawings of all the 
gold articles in the Pictorial Catalogue, referring to the correspond- 
ing numbers in the Register. 
The Committee must, therefore, report to the Council, that it is 
now impossible to make any further progress in the Descriptive 
