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A HISTORY OF 



Blackburne, Rt. Hon. Francis, 285, 



382 

 Blacker, James, 94 

 Blacker, W. , prize essay, 253 

 Black lead, premium offered for dis- 

 covery of, 419 

 Blake, Captain Francis, seeks aid in 



making kelp from seaweed, &c. , 72 

 Blakeney, Wm., Lord, statue of, 50 

 Blankets, premium awarded for, 68 

 Blaquiere, John (Baron De Blaquiere), 



151-2 

 Bleaching, 359 ; sulphuret of lime as a 



substitute for potash in, 359 

 Blind, books for the, 269 

 Blood, Edmond, bell founder, memo- 

 rialises the Society, 69 

 Bloomfield, Sir Benjamin, 230, 231 

 Blow, Daniel, premium for erecting 



paper mill, 65 

 Blue Coat Hospital, in ; boys to be 

 instructed in the drawing schools, 118 

 Bliimenbach, 163 

 Board of National Education, 341 

 Board of National Education Com- 

 missioners, 343 

 Board of Trade, Society's annual 



report to (1856), quoted, 364 

 Boardman, John, 176, 229 

 Bog butter, scientific examination of, 



358 

 Bog draining and reclamation, 12, 20, 

 61, 65, 68, 145 and n. 2 , 169, 241, 386, 

 397 

 Bog slide in Kerry, 370 

 Boggs, Gardiner, premiums for her- 

 rings, 70 

 Bogs, Irish, Commission on, 169; MS. 



reports on, made for R.D.S., 180 

 Bolton, Edward, premium for hops, 58 

 Bolton, Theophilus (Archbishop of 



Cashel), io, 20 

 Bone lace, 58, 61, 141, 413 

 Bosquet, David, manufactures sheet 



lead and copper, 73 



Boswell, J. Knight, 362 



Botanic Garden, premises in Mecklen- 



burgh St. taken for a (1739), 88, 186 ; 



premises at Summer Hill, 186 



Botanic Garden, Glasnevin, the, 186 



et seq. ; establishment of, 186-7, 



263, 35 S ; part of boundary wall 



blown down, 271 ; professor and 



lecturer appointed, 159-60, 355 ; 



recommendations of the professor, 



1830 . . . 194-5 '< expense of, 



190 ; experiment with apprentices, 



192-3 ; fully described, 1818 . . . 



194; number of visitors to (1835-6), 



195 ; in 1861 . . . 197 ; friction 

 between the Government and the 

 Society as to Sunday opening of, 

 197 ; extent of, in 1861 . . . 

 197; Society's connection with, 

 ceases, 197 ; progress since, 197 

 Catalogues (class), 191 

 Conservatories, 196 

 Fete, 287 

 Gardens, different classes of, 194; 



Hortus Hiberniczts , 194 

 Herbarium, 197 

 Hothouses, 191, 192, 193, 196 

 Meteorological observations, 359, 



369 

 Museum, 197 

 Norfolk Island pine, 193 

 Orchid house, 197 

 Palm house, 193, 196 

 Staff, work of the, 357 

 Victoria House, 197 

 Botanical papers in the Society's 



Transactions, 359 

 Botany lectures at cattle show, 345 

 Botany premiums, 160 ; for discovery 



of new Irish plants, 227 

 Boulter, Hugh, Primate, 10, 13, 28, 



30. 380 

 Boyd, H. , 20 



Boyle, Henry, Earl of Shannon, 27 

 Boyle, John, 5th Earl of Orrery, 29, 



30 

 Boyle Medal, the (scientific), 373 et 



seq. 

 Boyle, the Hon. Robert, 373; the 

 scientific work of, 374-5 ; the Boyle 

 Lectures, 375 ; mentioned, 1,7 

 Boyse, Mr., establishes a school of 



agriculture at Taghmon, 223 

 Boyton, Mr., premium for hats, 63 

 Bradshaw, John, edition of Chester- 

 field's Letters, quoted, 47, 48, 75, 76 

 Brady, Cheyne, paper on the improve- 

 ment of labouring class dwellings, 

 364 

 Brady, Nicholas William, gold thread 

 manufacturer, memorialises the 

 Society, 69 

 Brady, Sir Maziere (Bart.), 69 n. 1 , 284 

 Braughall, Thomas, Hon. Sec, 115, 



255, 256, 383 

 Bread : How to make, without barm : 



a letter, 50 

 Breaking-up ground, premiums for, 58, 



59 



Breeding stock entries at Ballsbridge 

 cattle shows, 348 



Brenan, Edward, paper on fossil re- 

 mains in co. Waterford, 366 



