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fessors and their apparatus, the four fine art schools, 

 the Botanic Garden, the purchase of Leinster House, 

 the exhibition room, museum, library, laboratories, the 

 cabinet of mineralogy, and the various bounties and 

 premiums, were all defrayed out of the members' sub- 

 scriptions and the yearly grant of j£ 10,000. This 

 report was transmitted to the Right Hon. William 

 Grant, Secretary for Ireland, with a special letter from 

 the secretaries of the Society. 



In 1820, the Right Hon. George Knox was elected 

 a vice-president, and on the 3rd of February in that year 

 the regular meeting was not held, in consequence of 

 the death of King George the Third. In June, when 

 conveying the new monarch's acknowledgment of the 

 address on his accession, Lord Sidmouth intimated that 

 His Majesty would be pleased to become Patron of 

 the Society, and, on the 29th of June 1820, it assumed 

 the title of the Royal Dublin Society. 



The Society nominated a permanent committee of 

 twenty-one members, to enquire into the expense and 

 practicability of reclaiming the bogs and waste lands of 

 Ireland, which reported that every description of bog 

 was capable of reclamation, and of being converted into 

 profitable land, which would repay outlay. 



King George the Fourth visited Ireland in August 

 1 82 1, and on the 24th of that month he went to 

 Leinster House, where a fete cbampetre and dejeuner 

 were given in his honour on the lawn, on which had 

 been erected a large marquee, fitted up with great 

 taste. Within the tent, under a scarlet canopy, was 

 a richly decorated table, above which were " g. r. iv " 

 and the royal arms. For the entertainment of the 

 company invited to meet His Majesty were provided 

 about fifty tents, ranged round in semicircular form, 

 and in double rows. Three harpers in the garb of 



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