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Tuespay, Marcu l6rTu, 1852. (Stated Meeting.) 
THOMAS ROMNEY ROBINSON, D.D., Presipent, 
in the Chair. 
It was Resolved:— 
That the Answer given by the late Lord Lieutenant to 
the Address of the Academy, as reported in the Dublin Even- 
ing Post of the 26th of February, be entered on the Minutes. 
The following is the Address, with His Excellency’s An- 
swer :— 
* To His Excellency the Right Honourable George William 
Frederick Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant General and 
General Governor of Ireland, &c. 
“ May IT PLEASE youR EXXcELLENCY, 
“We, the President and Members of the Royal Irish 
Academy, beg to express our deep sense, not merely of the 
important benefit which has recently been conferred upon us - 
by your Excellency, but of the active and intelligent sympa- 
thy with which you have invariably encouraged our exertions 
and forwarded our objects. We had hoped to give utterance 
to these feelings in a more public and impressive form, on our 
approaching inauguration in the new abode which you have 
provided for us; but, at least, we will not permit your Excel- 
lency’s official connexion with us, as Visitor of the Academy, 
to terminate without a distinct expression of our gratitude for 
# way in which the duties of that office have been performed 
by your Excellency. 
** The exertions of the Academy were long fettered by the 
nature of the locality in which, for the last sixty years, it has 
been established. Its deliverance from this evil could only be 
effected by the union of the power to aid it with the mind 
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