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visited the exhibition on Tuesday, the 30th of August, 

 when she sat in a state chair used at her coronation, 

 which had been lent by Lord Conyngham. The Right 

 Hon. Robert H. Kinahan, lord mayor, Mr. Dargan, 

 Mr. George Roe, and Sir Edward McDonnell received 

 the Royal party, who were accompanied by the Earl of 

 St. Germains, the lord lieutenant, and the Countess of 

 St. Germains. In the afternoon Her Majesty drove out 

 to Mount Anville, Dundrum, to pay Mr. and Mrs. 

 Dargan a visit. The Queen also paid visits to the 

 exhibition on the 31st of August and the 1st and 2nd 

 of September, examining different departments on each 

 occasion. During her third visit, Mr. Richard Griffith 

 gave Her Majesty an account of the Irish granites and 

 marbles exhibited by the Royal Dublin Society. 



In 1852, Dr. W. E. Steele was appointed assistant 

 secretary. On the 27th of October 1853, the sudden 

 death of Sir William Betham, vice-president, was an- 

 nounced, and in November of the same year, Mr. Henry 

 Conner White was elected registrar, in the room of 

 P. T. Wilson, who had been in the Society's service 

 in that capacity for a great number of years. 



When the estimates for 1854 were under considera- 

 tion, a Committee of the Privy Council, being anxious 

 to extend to Ireland the full benefits of industrial 

 instruction, proposed that the museum should be 

 devoted only to objects that might be necessary for 

 natural history, and for a museum of agriculture. 

 The Society was to be relieved of the educational staff 

 in order that its members might be available for the 

 museum of Irish industry, and for lectures in pro- 

 vincial towns, which would place them under the 

 Science and Art Department, and save the Society a 

 sum of £1772 yearly. The general vote was still to 



