THE ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY 437 



people, 51 ; inauguration of the 

 system of premiums, 52 et seq. ; Dr. 

 Madden's Letter to the Dublin Society 

 on the improving their fund, 53 ; re- 

 semblance of Society's work to that of 

 the present-day Congested Districts' 

 Board, 71 ; the Royal Charter, 20, 53, 

 75-6, 84, 106, 304, 309 ; meeting places 

 of the Society, 12, 88 et seq. [and see 

 under names of places, houses, &C.) ; 

 meeting place : extraordinary meet- 

 ings, 21 ; experiments in agriculture 

 by, 136 et seq. ; impression made by 

 the Society's methods, 141 ; the anti- 

 quarian committee, 146-7; period of 

 transition in, 159; abandonment of 

 the premium system, 159 ; connection 

 with the silk and woollen industries, 

 ig8etseq.; finances of the Society, 209 

 et seq. ; survey of the general work 

 of, during the late eighteenth and 

 early nineteenth centuries, 217 et seq. ; 

 widespread influence of, 217 ; as pro- 

 totype of societies for the diffusion of 

 knowledge, 222 ; summary of the 

 Society's activities from its founda- 

 tion, 240 et seq. ; assumes title of the 

 Royal Dublin Society, 241 ; relief of 

 distress in Ireland by, in 1822 . . . 243 ; 

 House of Commons Committee's re- 

 port on the estimates of, 246-7 ; 

 points in issue with the Government : 

 a deputation to confer as to modifica- 

 tions in theconstitutionof the Society, 

 249-50, 251 ; the Lord Lieutenant's 

 proposals, 249-50 ; Select Committee 

 of the House of Commons : inquiry 

 into the administration of the Society, 

 250, 252, 258 et seq., 273, 325, 344; 

 resolutions of the committee, 260 et 

 seq. ; attitude of the Society, 264-6 ; 

 the new by-laws, 267 ; management 

 confided to a Council, 267-8, 276; 

 differences with Government as to 

 Select Committee's recommenda- 

 tions, 273 et seq. ; amended by-laws, 

 276 ; superintendence of the educa- 

 tional staff transferred, 283-4 ; the 

 supplementary charter, 289 ; the 

 "Memorandum of Provisions," 292 

 et seq. ; the Second Supplemental 

 Charter and Statutes, 304 ; action to 

 secure freedom from Government con- 

 trol, 316-17; as the Agricultural 

 Society of Ireland, 321 ; view as to 

 co-operative trading, 333 ; resump- 

 tion of agricultural work by, 344 

 See also references under names of 

 Subjects 



Dublin University Magazine, 167, 



178 n. 2 , 270 

 Duchess of Leinster, ship built at 



Kingstown, 277 

 Dudley, Earl of, 320 

 Duffin, Mr., his mill, &c. at Glasnevin, 



purchased, 191 

 Dun, Thomas, premium for dyeing 



cloth, 62 

 Duncannon, Lord, procures casts, &c, 



for drawing school, in 

 Dutch methods in agriculture, hus- 

 bandry, &c, Society's appreciation 



of, 13, 31 

 Dutch works translated for the Society, 



174-5 

 Dutton, Hely, Observations on Survey 



co. Dublin, 183, 184 

 Dyeing, 12, 13 n. 1 , 22, 204, 359 1 



premiums for, 62 

 Dyers of Dublin, the, address of thanks 



to the Society, 199 

 Dyton's Gazette, 141 



Ealy, Samuel, premium for hops, 58 

 Earthenware, premium for, 68 

 Earthquake, submarine, paper on, 367 

 Eblana Depicta, by Pool and Cash, 



i5 2 



Eccles, Sir John, 186 



Economic Proceedings of the Royal 

 Dublin Society, 370 



Edgeworth, Maria, 229 



Edgevvorth, Richard Lovell, his inven- 

 tion as to wheeled carriages, 229-30 



Edinburgh, Duke of, 290, 352-3 



Education (Elementary). See Exami- 

 nations 



Edwards, Benjamin, premium for glass 

 manufacture, 74 



Elgin marbles, casts from, 127; cast 

 room, 237 



Elk, fossil, from Limerick, presented, 



2 45 . ... 



Elkington, Mr. , instruction in the art 



of draining land by, 93-4 

 Ellis, Dr. George: paper, On emigra- 

 tion as affecting the West of Ireland, 



364 

 Ellis, Welbore (Bishop of Meath), n 

 Ellis, William, The Country Gentleman 



and Shepherd's Sure Guide, 51 

 Elrington, Rev. Charles, 221, 230, 232 

 Elrington, Thomas (Bishop of Ferns), 



232 

 Embroidery, premium for, 62; section 



for, added to exhibition, 320 

 Emigration (West of Ireland), paper 



on, 364 



