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INDEX. 



PAGE 



Population— 



Booth, Mr. Charles, on . . 



Census lieturns, Army andAavy Omit- 

 ted from 1841, 1851 . 



Cork and Kerry, decline since 1881 

 (table) .... 



Decrease; Dangers 



J]ffect on Railway Companies . 



Economic Distribution of Population in 

 Ireland . . • . • 



Holdings and Occupiers, Statistical 

 Returns for Ireland 



Means of Support of the People of 

 Ireland by Percentixge (Estimate) 

 Table .... 



Non-producers, Increase Table 



Numbers, 1841—1881. Table . 



Occupations of People in Ireland by 

 Percentage, Table . 



Productive Industries, Decline 



Property Owning, Increase of Persons 

 Owning Property (table) 



Public and Professional Service, Per- 

 sons Engaged in (table) 



Public and Professional Service : 



Persons Engaged in, Increase of 



(table) .... 



Percentage of People Engaged in 



(table) .... 



Transfer of Employed from Productive 

 to Non-productive Industry between 

 1841 and 1881 



[See Brewing Industry.] 



Potatoes— 



" Blight," 1845 .... 

 Insect Pests, Freedom from 



Potteries, Pottery Clay . 



Poultry- 



Congested Districts Board, Work of . 



Pov?ER, John & Son— 



Distillery .... 



PoTNTER, Mr. Ambrose— 



Provincial Schools of Design, Opinion 



on . 

 Praeger, R. Lloyd— 



Flora of Ireland 

 Preston, Dr. Thomas- 



Decrease in Science and Art Instruction 

 in Ireland .... 

 Price, Sir Richard Green— 



Ponies, Points of . 



Prior, Thomas— 



New Method of Lraining Marshy and 

 Boggy Lands 



Purcell, Peter— 



Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland, 

 Founding of . . . 



Pyrography .... 

 Haiffeisen, Herr F. W. :— 



Origin of his System of Banking 



Railways :— 



Acts of Parliament relating to Rail- 

 ways and Canals . 

 America, Freight Rates, &c. . 



Table .... 



Bibliography : 



Colborn, Z. . ' . 



Fleming, William . 

 Hannan, Edward . 

 "Index to our Railway System" . 

 Transactions of the Institute of 

 Civil Engineers . 

 QaT. J . . M.'j Railways [see Canals and 



J cricultural toociex> 

 CC Table— with those of Great 



■ :.x: t Suns I. II.) 



Deny ..... 

 Dividemio, dOO 



Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford 

 Entire Irish .System compared with 

 English Great Western System 

 (tabU ) , 



Gi 



405 

 (36 



73 



64 

 315 



65 

 67 

 61 



65 

 67 



67 

 65 



70 



193 



62 



23 

 266 

 496 



149 

 46 



160 

 349 



181 

 443 



131 



86 

 93 

 94 



97 



97 



111 

 75 

 73 



79 



page 

 Railways— co/i^i/! ued. 



thirst Railwajf in Ireland . . 73 



Freight Charges in Ireland »nd Eng- 

 land, Causes attecting . . 98 

 Freight Traffic, Increase of . .96 

 Gauge, width of, may prove of advan- 

 tage in the future . . .73 

 Goods Traffic, 1871 and 1900 (table) . 79 

 Goods Traffic, 1898, in Ireland . 92 

 Great Northern . . 74, 85 

 Great Southern and Western . . 74 

 Gross Receipts in 1871 compared with 



1900 (Tables) . . .78 



Light Railways . . .74 



Midland Great Western Co., Ireland . 74 

 Mileage Receipts and Expenditure in 



1900 (Table) . . .74 



Northern Counties (Ireland) . . Ill 



Passenger Traffic, 1S71, 1891, 1900 (table) 78 

 Population, Decrease of, effect on Rail- 

 ways . . . "73 

 Private Companies, Number of . 73 

 Profitable and Unprofitable Traffic, 



Corder's Statements . . 97 



Railway and Canal Commissioners, De- 

 partment of Agriculture's Powers 

 with regard to . . . 280 



Railway Servants' Earnings, England 

 and Wales, Ireland and Scotland 

 (table) . . . .98 



Rates : 



Canal as a regulator of . .72 



England, Scotland, and Ireland 



compared (tables) . . 79 



Passenger and Goods— Reductions 95 

 United States. Influenceof Water- 

 way Rates on Railway Rates . 95 

 State Assistance and Control . . 73 



Tourist Traffic . . .77 



Raimbach, David Wilkie — 



Belfast School of Design, Master . 149 



Rathbone, Mr. Harold— 



Irish stained glass, remarks on . 413 



Rats— 



Ireland . . . .54 



Recess Committee . . . 233 



Members of . . . .271 



Redmond, John— 



Recess Committee . . . 271 



Reptiles and Amphibians . . 56 



Richardson, Jonathan . . .197 



RiSLER, M.— 



Sources of Waste in the Soil . . 31 



Roads— 



Stone used in Making . . .23 



Robb, Alexander— 



Ulster Consultative Committee . 272 



Roche, Mr. D. L.— 



Irish Cooperative Agency Society . 228 



Rock Salt— 



Carrickfergus ... 10, 18 



Roe, George, & Co.— 



Distillery . . . 495, 496 



Roe, Thomas— 



Ulster Consultative Committee . 272 



Rolleston, T. W^.— 



Pioneer Lecturer . . .174 



Ross, Mr. Justice — 



Recess Committee . . . 271 



Rosslare and Fishguard Scheme— 



History of . . . .77 



Royal Agricultural Society— 



Agiicultural College . . 183,190-192 



Agricultural Library . . . 182 



Boards of Guardians, &c. . . 187 



Clarendon, Lord . . .194 

 Instructors . . 185, 188, 194, 195 

 Kennedy, Right Hon. T. F., Sugges- 

 tions .... 187 



Leopardstown Agricultural College . 198 



Loan Fund Societies . . 185, 181 



