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meeting room is a library and repository for mechanical 

 models, save those relative to husbandry, which are de- 

 posited in another place belonging to the Society. 



"The rest of the building consists of the necessary offices 

 and the apartments of the Assistant Secretary. Behind 

 the house are the Society's drawing schools, where children 

 of indigent persons are educated in the arts of drawing, 

 in architecture, ornament, and the human figure. 



" The other building [on the right] appertained to the 

 Canal Company, but now belongs to the newly established 

 Royal Irish Society [The Royal Irish Academy], and is 

 similar in design to the Dublin Society's House ; but the 

 meeting room is not finished with equal elegance, although 

 of the same dimensions." 



^2200 were paid in the first instance to Myers, 

 and a sum of £27 Sy l ^ s - 2 ^- additional was voted 

 for the new academies for drawing. Another room 

 (for casts from the antique and busts), to adjoin the 

 schools and to be over a stable which was to be 

 built in the rear (the gateway and passage leading to 

 which still exist), was to be provided. On the site of 

 the house itself have since been erected the houses now 

 known as Nos. 1 1 2 and 1 1 3 Grafton street. In the 

 early part of 1 7 8 1 , a warehouse in Poolbeg street, with 

 its appurtenances, which belonged to the Trustees of 

 the Linen Manufacture, was lent to the Society (on 

 condition of the ground rent being paid), as a temporary 

 repository for implements of husbandry brought from 

 England, for which a sum of ^273, ijs. 2d. was paid, 

 it being the intention of the Society to supply them to 

 the public. The Linen Trustees' interest in the pre- 

 mises was subsequently vested in the Dublin Society by 

 the Act 21 and 22 Geo. Ill, c. 35, and in connection 

 with this, the Right Hon. John Foster reported that 

 he had engaged (as he had been requested), Thomas 

 Dawson, an English farmer, to come over, at a salary 



