220 A HISTORY OF 



Navan from 1765 to 181 8. Beaufort took an active part 

 in the foundation of the Royal Irish Academy, and his map 

 of Ireland, 1792, with a memoir of the civil and ecclesiasti- 

 cal state of the country, was a valuable contribution to 

 geography. 



In 1794, a sum of twenty guineas was paid to 

 Richard Hand for the Society's "Arms" in stained 

 glass, for the centre of the window purchased from 

 him in 1793 for a sum of 120 guineas. The Society 

 never had a grant of arms, and this must have been 

 the device of Minerva (later called Hibernia) with a 

 cornucopia, adopted by the Society. 



A sum of ^400 was divided in 1795 among a 

 number of persons for having enclosed not less than 

 ten acres with sufficient fences, and planting with forest 

 trees not less than 2000 plants to each acre. The 

 prizemen included Lord Belmore, Lord Mountjoy, 

 Lord Riverston, Major Le Hunte, Richard Aldworth, 

 and Walter Kavanagh. Premiums were also distri- 

 buted for preserving bees through the winters of 1793 

 and 1794. 



In May 1796, new medals were ordered to be 

 struck for the Society, and the pupils in the drawing 

 schools were asked to send in designs, the reverse to 

 have several devices, each appropriated to some one 

 object for which that body granted premiums. Among 

 the works of William Mossop, senior, appears the 

 medal of the Dublin Society, 1800, "given as a 

 premium for the various national objects encouraged 

 by the Society." 



The office of registrar was abolished in the year 

 1798, and the emoluments applied to the payment of 

 persons to superintend the collections of scientific 

 books at the Botanic Garden and the Repository. 

 The late registrar and collector had given the Society 



