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the value of these collections is mainly due to the skill and 
learning of some distinguished ornaments of the Academy, 
whose services were given to the Survey for the purpose, 
I would humbly represent to your Excellency that no 
more appropriate depository can be found for the preserva- 
tion of so valuable a monument of their intelligence and 
. d try. 
industry *¢T have, &c., 
(Signed) “‘ James H. Topp, 
‘¢ President of the Royal Irish Academy. 
‘To his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant.” 
“¢‘ Dublin Castle, June 7, 1857. 
‘¢ Sir, —With reference to your letter of the 4th of April 
last, I am directed by the Lord Lieutenant to acquaint you 
that a communication has been received from the Lords Com- 
missioners of her Majesty’s Treasury, stating that their 
Lordships have been in communication with the War depart- 
ment on the subject of the materials collected for the illustra- 
tion of local history and antiquities in the several Irish 
counties during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 
Treland; and that Lord Panmure sees no objection to their 
transfer to the Royal Irish Academy; and that their Lord- 
ships have requested that the necessary steps may be taken 
for that purpose. 
“Tam, Sir, your obedient Servant, 
‘Tuomas A. Larcom. 
“ Rev. Dr. Todd, 
“ President of the Royal Irish Academy.” 
** Ordnance Survey Office, Dublin, 
“¢ June 8, 1857. 
‘¢ Sir, —The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty’s Trea- 
sury having sanctioned the transfer to the Library of the 
