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or economic interest, such as the Earl of Devon's 

 paper " On the social condition of the people of 

 Ireland," which is printed in full ; Mr. Cheyne 

 Brady's paper " On the practicability of improving the 

 dwellings of the labouring classes," given in abstract ; 

 and Dr. George Ellis's, " On emigration as affecting the 

 West of Ireland," printed in full. 



The necessity for wider and more systematic publi- 

 cation of the Society's work was now fully recognised. 

 In the annual report to the President of the Board 

 of Trade, dated December the 31st, 1856, the Council 

 said, that " within the past session the Council, with 

 the sanction of the Society, issued for the first time 

 the Journal of the Royal Dublin Society, three numbers 

 of which have now been published. The Council 

 consider the publication of this periodical to be of 

 great importance to the institution, inasmuch as in its 

 pages will be found a public record of its proceeding, 

 as regards the advancement of those arts and sciences 

 for the promotion of which the Society was incorpo- 

 rated. As the record of the scientific and educational 

 departments, it will be found to awaken a degree of 

 interest therein which cannot fail to aid rheir extension, 

 while from its being the medium of publication of 

 those communications on the natural and applied 

 sciences made to the Society from time to time, the 

 reputation of the institution will be enhanced. The 

 Council, impressed with these convictions, have urged 

 upon the Society the advisability of its working out 

 this project with energy, especially sanctioning a liberal 

 use of illustrations, by lithography and other means, 

 of the papers that may from time to time be published 

 in its pages." 



The Journal continued to appear until the year 

 1876, when it was replaced by the publications devoted 



