INDEX 



Abercorn, James, ist Duke of, 291, 380 



Abercorn, James, 2nd Duke of, 382 



Academy, Royal Irish, house in Grafton 

 Street (1767), 91 



Acetylene gas, Professor Davy's dis- 

 covery, 360 



Acorns : premiums for sowing and 

 securing, 68, 408 



Acton, Thomas, 92 



Adair, Henry, 176, 177, 267 



Adair, Samuel F., 292 



Adams, A. Leith, on the fossiliferous 

 caves of Malta, 366 



Adare, Lord, 274 



Addison [Joseph], 188, 189 ; connec- 

 tion with Ireland, 188 



"Addison's Walk," Botanic Garden, 

 188 



Adeney, Dr., 370 



Admission of members, mode of, 216, 

 246, 247, 249, 260-1 ; House of 

 Commons Select Committee on, 260 



Admission to membership : fee, io, 83, 

 214, 216, 249, 261, 273. 



See also under Subscriptions 



Aeronautics, 235 and n. ; a paper on, 

 363 



Agricultural Association of Ireland, 

 formation of proposed, 253 



Agricultural chemistry : Dr Kirwan's 

 paper on the applicability of manures 

 to soils, 359 



Agricultural chemistry, lectures in, at 

 the cattle show, 345 



Agricultural evening meetings, 361 



Agricultural Hall (Ballsbridge), 311-12, 



3*7. 347. 349 

 Agricultural implements, premiums for, 



57, 58 

 Agricultural Improvement Society, 297. 



And see Royal Agricultural Society 



of Ireland 

 Agricultural labourer (Irish), paper on 



condition of, 366 

 Agricultural Museum, 277, 340, 349 ; 



earliest instance of formation of and 



exhibition (1733), 22 



Agricultural Organisation Society, 333 



Agricultural School at Taghmon, the, 

 223 



Agricultural Shows, 295, 311, 344 et 

 seq. ; Government suggestion for re- 

 moval of, to Phoenix Park, 311 



Agricultural Society of Ireland. See 

 Royal 



Agricultural Society of Scotland, 298, 

 347 



Agricultural Society of the Hundred of 

 Salford, 137 



Agriculture: the chief original object 

 of the Society, 234 ; Society's work 

 for, 92, x^6etseq., 141,240,247-8,253, 

 2 77, 344 ; encouragement to, ceases 

 on formation of the Farming Society, 

 223; revived interest of members in, 

 234 253 ; inquiry into condition of, 

 in Ireland, 234, 235, 244; Society 

 receives legacy for the encouragement 

 of, 149 ; premiums offered for essays 

 and schemes in, 252-3. And see 

 Baker, John Wynn 



Agriculture, prize for the best work on 

 (in 1759), 84 



Agriculture and husbandry in Ireland 

 in the middle of the eighteenth cen- 

 tury, 136, 138 ; implements of, in 

 the middle of the eighteenth century, 

 138 



Agriculture and Technical Instruction 

 (Ireland) Act (1902), 299, 317 



Agriculture and Technical Instruction 

 Department, 337 



Agriculture, English Board of, 93, 

 221 



Agriculture, Flemish mode of, recom- 

 mended, 244 



Agriculture, Irish Department of, 

 316-17, 372 



See also under Committee of Agri- 

 culture 



Albert Institution, Glasnevin, 340 



Alcoholic liquids, estimation of strength 

 of, Dr. Kirwan's paper on, 359 



Aldborough, Earl of, 78, 149 



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