38 A HISTORY OF 



is. ^\d. ; also pictures of the machines recommended, 

 neatly engraved on copper. 



In January 1737, Lord Trim lestown communicated 

 an account of his new three-coulter plough, which 

 ploughed the earth very finely. He also sent up the 

 plough for trial, with his own ploughman, when it was 

 tried in the Phoenix park, and approved. This practice 

 of making trial in the Park of agricultural implements 

 and machinery connected with scientific husbandry and 

 inventions was subsequently frequently adopted. Some- 

 times members interested went down to the country 

 to view trials, and there is a record of Mr. Prior 

 and Mr. Dobbs having gone to Leixlip in December 

 1738, to see at work a drain plough, which is fully 

 described. They recommended that a similar plough 

 should be procured for the Society. 



Mr. Arbuckle was thanked in October 1737, 

 for a poem, addressed to the Dublin Society. He 

 was asked to print it, and the Society agreed to take 

 200 copies. This recalls Abraham Cowley's Ode 

 to the Royal Society, on the granting of the Royal 

 Charter in 1662. The letters of "Hibernicus" 

 (Francis Hutcheson), were edited in 1725, and the 

 edition was dedicated to Richard, Viscount Molesworth, 

 by James Arbuckle, a Scotchman who held a post in 

 the Quit Rent Office, Dublin. His will was proved 

 in the Diocesan Court of Dublin in 1744. A poem, 

 entitled Snuff, by Arbuckle, was published in 1719 

 in Edinburgh. 



There is in the King's Inns Library, Dublin, a 

 copy of his verses addressed to the Dublin Society 

 with the following title page : 



