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Varronis Opera omnia cum Notis. Dordrecht, 1619. 

 Jethro Tull's Horse Hoeing Husbandry. Dublin, 1733. 

 The Practice of Farming and Husbandry, by W. Ellis. 



Dublin, 1735. 

 Tull's Horse Hoeing Husbandry. The first part. Dublin, 



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Slator's Instructions for Cultivating and Raising Flax and 



Hemp. Dublin, 1724. 



Instructions for Planting white Mulberryes for Silk Worms. 

 Paris, 1665. 



When the library was being formed, Dr. Tennison, 

 bishop of Ossory, presented a number of books. 



In 1755, the Society purchased, for a sum of 500, 

 the collection of manuscripts made by Walter Harris, 

 the editor of Ware, who died in Henry street, Dublin, 

 in July 1761 ; and an obituary notice, in mentioning the 

 purchase, added, that " from it some excellent history 

 may be compiled." Archbishop King had cherished 

 the idea of writing a Church History of Ireland, and 

 his Collectanea were added to and used by Harris. 

 They were also made much use of by Archdall, in 

 compiling his Monasticon. The collection consists of 

 seventeen volumes folio. Eleven of them contain 

 deeds, patents, letters (Irish History, 1170-1690). 

 The twelfth deals with convents, monasteries, and Irish 

 ecclesiastical affairs. Another volume contains transla- 

 tions from Stearne's collection, among them extracts 

 from the Annals of Innisj alien. The contents of the 

 remaining volumes are of a miscellaneous character. 

 In August 1761, Lord Clanbrassil applied by letter to 

 Dr. Mann, requesting that Harris' collection of manu- 

 scripts should be sent to Dr. Warner l in England. The 



1 Ferdinando Warner, LL.D., rector of St. Michael's, Queenhithe, 

 a man of great ability and wide learning. He wrote a History of 

 Ireland, of which the first volume only to 1171 was published. 

 While gathering materials for an ecclesiastical history, he came to 



