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A HISTORY OF 



Mathewson, Richard, premium for 

 blue " sugar loaf" paper, 66 



Matthews, John, piece of sculpture, 

 6i 



Maturin, Rev. Gabriel Jacques, Hon. 

 Secretary, 33, 383 



Maule, Henry (Bishop of Meath), 80 



Maunsell, Rev. Dr., gold medal for 

 potato culture, 224 and n. 



Maunsell, Ven. William R., 245 



Maxwell, Arthur, premium for manur- 

 ing with sea sand, &c. , 66 



Mayo Farming Society, 222 



Meade, George, 122 



Mechanic arts, Society's interest in, 

 19 ; premiums for, 417 



Mecklenburg Street, premises in, taken 

 for Botanic Garden, 88 ; premises 

 and meetings in (1739-40), 88 



Medal, premium offered for a, 417 



Medals, recipients of Society's gold, 72, 

 145. 225 



Medals in the museum, catalogue of, 

 176, 177 



Medals — not money premiums, to be 

 given to those possessing ^500 a 

 year, 71 



Medals of the Society : designs for, 220 ; 

 Mossop's medal, 220 



Meeting-places of the Society. See 

 Homes of the Society 



Members in 1733, list of, 24 et seq. 

 number of, at end of 1742, 60 

 list of names of, in the Charter, 76 

 members of the voluntary society 

 elected subsequent to the date of the 

 Charter, 77; regulation as to honor- 

 ary, 215 ; list of members present at 

 meetings first printed, 225; formal 

 introduction of new members, 228 ; 

 rule as to choice of a subject of in- 

 terest by each member, 17, 18, 44 



Membership : election to, by ballot, 14, 

 84 ; regulations as to membership 

 and arrears of subscriptions, 43 ; 

 composition fee for life membership, 

 83, 285 ; first instance of rejection of a 

 candidate for, 86 ; period of decline 

 in, due to steps taken with regard to 

 arrears of subscription, 151 See also 

 under Admission and Subscriptions 



Membership and by-laws, 214 et seq. 



Memorandum of Provisions, as to 

 Leinster House, &c. (1877), 292, 



3 2 5 

 Memorials of manufacturers to the 



Society, 69 

 Memory, Feinagle's system of, 229 

 Mendicity, Society for the Suppression 



of, occupy Society's premises in Pool- 

 beg Street, 95 



Mercier, R. E. , catalogues the Library, 

 *75 



Merino factory at Kilkenny, 208 



Meteoric (Tipperary) stone, analysis of, 

 157, 228 



Meteorological records taken at the 

 Botanic Garden, returns of, 359, 369 



Metternich, Prince Victor, honorary 

 member, 230 



Metzler, Karl Ludwig. See Giesecke 



Meyler, Dr. Anthony, lecturer on ven- 

 tilation, 238, 250 



Microscope, paper on the, 366 



Mihil, Mrs. , premium for lace, 67 



Milk, estimation of richness of, Dr. Kir- 

 wan's paper on, 359 



Millard, J., The New Art of Memory, 

 229 



Miller, Dr. James, 163 



Miller, Joseph, premium for tanning, 67 



Millet, premiums for, 390 



Mills, Charles, 223 



Milton, John, 224 



Milward, Dawson, 331, 332 ; Report on 

 the Butter Manufacture of Denmark 

 and other Countries, 1879 ... 331 



Minchin, Humphrey, 229 



Mineralogical Museum, or School, 154 

 et seq. , 159, 165 ; the work of Donald 

 Stewart, 154-6 ; purchase of the 

 Leskean cabinet, 156-7 ; appoint- 

 ment of a professor of chemistry and 

 mineralogy, 157 ; purchase of manu- 

 scripts and drawings concerning 

 mineralogy, geology, and mining, 



157 ; communication established with 

 the Imperial Museum, Vienna, 157; 

 the work of Dr. Richard Kirwan, 



158 ; donation of shells, &c. , 158 ; 

 gift of volcanic specimens and hard 

 woods, 159 ; premium offered for the 

 best geological and mineralogical 

 survey of co. Dublin, 161 ; opening 

 of the museum, 161 ; a professor of 

 mineralogy and geology appointed, 

 162 ; appointment of a mining en- 

 gineer ; the work of Richard 

 Griffith, jun., 162-3, 168-9; election 

 of C. L. Giesecke to the professor- 

 ship, 163, 165; number of specimens 

 of minerals in, 165 



Mineralogical excursion into Arabia 



Petrsea, paper on, 365 

 Mineralogical description of rocks in 



Central India, on, 366 

 Minerva (or Hibernia), figure of, 97, 



220, 425 



