262 A HISTORY OF 



i . Committee of Fine Arts. 



2. Committee of Natural Philosophy and its applica- 



tion to the Useful Arts. 



3. Committee of Chemistry and its application to 



the Useful Arts. 



4. Committee of Mineralogy and Geology, and 



its application to the Useful Arts. 



5. Committee of Botany and Natural History. 



6. Committee of Agriculture. 



7. Committee of Statistics. 



8. Committee of Accounts and Domestic Arrange- 



ments. 



That at an early period in each year an estimate 

 should be presented for sanction to a general meeting 

 of the Society, of the expenditure which will be re- 

 quired in each department of the Society's operations, 

 and that no deviation from that estimate should take 

 place to an extent greater than ^50, in the province 

 of any one committee, without the sanction of the 

 Society at large, except upon any extraordinary occasion, 

 when the consent of the Treasury shall be required. 



That it should be the duty of each committee to 

 report to the Council upon all matters relating to the 

 department over which it presides ; and that all recom- 

 mendations emanating from the committees should be 

 subject to the final sanction of the whole Council. 



4. That the Dublin Society should be considered 

 as the great central association for the diffusion through- 

 out Ireland of a knowledge of practical science, and 

 of all improvements in agriculture, horticulture, and 

 the arts ; and that it should place itself in communi- 

 cation with all local societies, founded with a view to 

 similar objects, affording to them assistance, encourage- 

 ment, and information, and receiving from them in 

 return periodical reports of their proceedings. 



