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co-operation and assistance. As regards the Society, they can 
promise, that every necessary attention will be paid to selecting, 
arranging, and preserving all donations sent in for this Museum. 
It is not merely to persons residing abroad that this appeal is 
directed—even those living at home, have frequent opportunities 
of aiding such an Institution as this. Specimens of a kind 
suited to a Museum, are always occurring, which, though of little 
value to the possessors in their detached state, may be of great 
use in a Museum, by enabling the Directors to complete their 
series, or by comparison with specimens already there. Anti- 
quities, also, connected with the history of our own country, 
are always presenting themselves. These, from not being col- 
lected into one place, lose a great part of their value; they are 
neither useful to elucidate the general history of the arts, nor the 
particular antiquities of Ireland. The circumstances, also, under 
which they are found, and the locality, are soon forgotten; and 
thus a great part of the interest connected with them is lost. 
The Council having now concluded their Report, beg leave, in 
the name of the Society, to return their thanks to those noble- 
men and gentlemen who have contributed to the erection of the 
present building, and to the collection of specimens; and to 
assure them, that it will always be the great object of the members 
to fulfil, as far as in their power, the plan of the original pros- 
pectus, by endeavouring to render the Museum worthy of the 
liberal spirit by which it has been so far supported. 
