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of search, and, if necessary, to conduct the search by sledging 
parties, in the use of which that officer has already had expe- 
rience during the three Arctic expeditions in which he has so 
highly distinguished himself. 
“We trust, therefore, were it only for the honour of Eng- 
land, that the ship so nobly restored to her Majesty by the 
people of the United States—a ship admirably adapted for the 
service—will be now sent out to aid the noble attempt of Lady 
Franklin to recover some tidings of the melancholy fate of her 
lamented husband and his companions, that she may have the 
gratification of receiving from the Government of her own 
country that sympathy which the citizens of New York, the 
Government of the United States, and, we may be permitted 
to add, the educated public of England and of this > alae 
have already manifested in her behalf. 
‘‘ Given in the name and under the corporate seal of the 
Royal Irish Academy, this 2nd day of May, 1857. 
(Signed) ‘** James H. Topp, D. D., 
‘¢ President.” 
It was moved by the Rev. Samuel Haughton, and seconded 
by the Rev. J. H. Jellett :— 
‘That the Secretary of the Council of the Academy be 
requested to forward to the Secretary of the Shipowners’ 
Association of Liverpool a copy of the President’s Memorial 
to Lord Palmerston, and to ask for the co-operation of that 
body with the Royal Irish Academy.” 
A letter from J. Beete Jukes, Esq., was read, presenting 
twenty-one maps of the Geological Survey of Ireland by Sir 
R. J. Murchison, on the part of her Majesty’s Government. 
A geometrical projection of two-thirds of the sphere, by 
Lieutenant-Colonel H. James, R. E., &c, was presented. 
