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procured by special private subscription, or paid for out 

 of the general funds of the Society. 



12. That measures should be taken for securing 

 increased activity and efficiency in the management of 

 all the schools, and that they should be made instru- 

 mental rather in giving instruction in the useful and 

 the mechanical departments of the arts, than in those 

 which are purely ornamental. 



13. That in order to form a National Museum 

 adequate to the public wants, it is necessary to provide 

 larger accommodation for the exhibition of objects than 

 the present rooms of the Dublin Society are capable of 

 affording, and that such increased accommodation can 

 with advantage be provided by an extension of the 

 buildings of the Society's present house. 



On the 3rd of November 1 846, the special committee 

 of the Society reported on the foregoing resolutions, and, 

 as to the first, submitted that it ought not to surrender 

 its property, but should abide by the charter. With 

 respect to the annual grant, the committee stated that 

 it was administered as stated in the estimate, approved 

 by the Treasury, and absorbed in the expenditure of 

 the year. 



As to No. 2, it agreed that the by-laws should be 

 altered, so as to give effect to the recommendations. 



As to No. 3, the Society was willing to adopt it, 

 so far as to confide the ordinary business of the Society 

 to a Council, provided the powers of such Council 

 were strictly defined and limited, so as not to exclude 

 the direct control over its proceedings on the part of 

 the Society at large. Committees of management 

 should be appointed under the following heads : — 



1. Botany and Horticulture. 



2. Chemistry, with its application to the useful 



arts. 



