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Conditions of Sale; and that same shall be completed as soon as 
possible after the return of the Company’s Solicitor, who is at pre- 
sent in England. 
“* T am, Sir, your obedient Servant, 
* (Signed) Joun STEVENSON, 
“* To Robert Ball, LL. D., “* Secretary. 
“ Treasurer, Rh. I. A.” 
The additions to the present House, to be erected by the Board 
of Works, were begun in August last, and although the weather 
during a great part of the winter has been very unfavourable for 
building, they are now far advanced. The Library has been roofed 
in; and the roof of the Museum, which is to be chiefly of glass, 
is now nearly ready for the glazier. Still, it is impossible that these 
buildings can be finished and dry enough for occupation, until 
the end of the summer; and the Academy must therefore submit 
for several months to the inconvenience we have suffered since our 
removal to the present House, of having our Museum and Library 
in disorder. 
These circumstances induced the Council to listen the more 
readily to the liberal proposal made by the Committee of the 
Great Industrial Exhibition, to be held this year in Dublin, to re- 
ceive our Museum as a whole, and appropriate to it a separate 
apartment in the building now in progress for the reception of the 
Exhibition. After some negotiations with the Committee, for the 
purpose of obtaining such security for the safety of the Museum 
as the Committee had it in their power to give, the Council agreed 
to recommend this important measure to the Academy ; and it was 
resolved, on the 14th ult., that the Museum of the Academy be 
exhibited in the Great Dublin Exhibition of 1853, on the conditions 
agreed to between the Council and the Committee of the Exhibi- 
tion: and that the Council be empowered to take such further 
steps, from time to time, for the security of the Museum, as to them 
may seem necessary. 
The conditions finally agreed upon between the Council and 
the Committee of the Great Exhibition, are in substance these :— 
That the Committee shall give to the Academy an undertaking 
in writing, that all such precautions for the safety of the Mu- 
