THE ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY 429 



Baker, John Wynn, his work for the 

 Society, 137, 140; works on agri- 

 culture by, 137, 139 ; plan of, for 

 educating youths in husbandry, 137- 

 138 ; salary and grants to, 138, 139 ; 

 death, 139 ; will, 139 ; Arthur Young's 

 remarks on, 140 



Baker, Mrs., premium for lace, 62 



Baker, Robert, premium for lace, 58 



Baker, Sarah, 139 



Bakewell, Robert, 163 



Balbriggan, cotton manufacture at, 153 



Balfour, Right Hon. A. J., 303, 315, 



335 

 Bill, F. Elrington, Correspondence of 



Swift, cited, 30-1, 188, 189, 245 ; 



History of County Dublin, cited, 45 



n., 86, 145 n. 1, quoted, 85 

 Ballinasloe cattle show, 344 

 Ballsbridge, 302, 311 et seq., 317, 318, 



350 n. ; south hall, 312, 347 

 Ballsbridge cattle shows, 311, 312, 348, 



349 , . 1 



Ballycastle collieries, 22 and n. 1 



Ballyweel Harbour, grant for erecting 

 quay to land fish, 71 



Bangor, 1st Viscount, 7 



Banim, John, 96 



Banking, papers on, read at the Even- 

 ing Scientific Meetings, 361 



Barbadoes Natural History Society, in 

 correspondence with R.D.S., 217 



Barber, Rupert, premium for green 

 glassware, 65-6, 66 n. 2 



Barber, Mrs. (Swift's friend), 66 n. 2 



Barbor, Dr. Constantine, 85 



Barclay, Mr., his invention of a screw 

 pump, 43 



Barintrinsky, Prince : honorary mem- 

 ber, 230 



Barker, Dr. William , professor of Natu- 

 ral Philosophy, 278, 362 ; contribu- 

 tions to the Evening Scientific Meet- 

 ings, 362 



Barley, premiums for sowing, 58 



Barley Committee, the, 349 ; prizes 

 offered by, 349 



Barometer, registering (Yeates), 363 



Barret, George, artist, 130, 132 



Barrett, John, & Co., premium for de- 

 stroying seals on north-west coast, 

 7i 



Barrington, Rev. Benjamin (Dean of 

 Armagh), 145 and n. 1 , 199 



Barry, James, artist, 120-1 ; Society 

 subscribe to fund for his benefit, 120 ; 

 his "Cymbeline" in possession of 

 the Society, 121 



Barry, Dr. J. M., 367 



Barrymore, Lord, 12 



Baruchson's, [A.], paper on the manu- 

 facture of beet sugar in Ireland, 367 



Bassani family, 121 n 2 



Beamish, G., 335 



Beans, Michael, premium for twilled 

 stockings, 57 



Beans, premiums awarded for plant- 

 ing, 73 



Beatty, Dr. John, Hon. Sec, 249, 383 



Beatty, Dr. W., 267 



Beauclerk, Mr., books of, purchased, 



i73 

 Beaufort, Rev. Dr. D. A., 219, 220, 



228 

 Beaune & Co., of Brussels, offer to 



establish cloth manufacture, 73 

 Bee hives, premiums for, 393, 410 

 Bees, Instructions for Managing Bees, 



21 and n. 1 

 Bees, premiums awarded for honey and 



wax, 391, 409 

 Bees, preservation of, 220, 392, 410 

 Bees, weighing of, 392 

 Bees' winter food, premium for inven- 

 tion of, offered, 393 

 Beet sugar manufacture in Ireland, 362, 



367 

 Behnes, William, sculptor (a student 



at modelling school), 127 and n., 



128, 129, 242 

 Belfast, glass manufacture in, 74 

 Bell and La Touche, factors in Jamaica, 



69 

 Bell casting in Dublin, 69 

 Belmore, Lord, 220 

 Benson, Sir John, 282 

 Beranger, Gabriel, 117; translates 



foreign works, 174 ; Memoir of, by 



Sir William Wilde, 174 

 Beresford, Rt. Hon. John Claudius, 



Lord Mayor, 104, 106 

 Berkeley, George (Bishop of Cloyne), 4, 



9, 31, 32, 81 ; his Querist, 32 

 Bermingham, Mr. (of Roscommon), 88 

 Berthelot, cited, 360 

 Bertrand, Mr., 113 

 Berwick, Mr., 176 

 Betham, Sir William, 230, 232, 270, 



280, 283, 382 

 Bianconi, Charles, 278, 279 

 Bibliotheca Botanica (A. Von Haller), 



purchased for the Library, 173 

 Billies, for worsted weaving, premiums 



for, 208 

 Bindon, Francis, portrait painter, &c. , 



27, 66, 78, no 

 Birch, Major, presents Roman remains, 



swords, &c. , 159 



