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ceived, which stated that an attempt had been made 

 to establish in Cork lectures in natural philosophy, 

 chemistry, and mineralogy. He had procured from 

 London many specimens of foreign minerals, and 

 requested assistance in his endeavours. The Society 

 allowed him to have some duplicate fossils, and he was 

 to have copies of the Transactions, with lists of Irish 

 minerals. 



In the same year Adam Seybert, secretary to the 

 American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, requested 

 that it might be allowed to correspond with the 

 Dublin Society, which was approved, with exchange 

 of publications. 



Premiums were given, in 1803, to John Tem- 

 ple ton, Belfast, and Dr. Scott, Marlborough street, for 

 discovering plants natives of Ireland not previously 

 described by any botanist. Premiums were also awarded 

 for discovery of a new species of rose in the counties of 

 Down and Kerry. 



In 1807, Captain Theodore Wilson was appointed 

 housekeeper ; and Sir Thomas G. Newcomen, treasurer, 

 in the room of Sir William G. Newcomen, deceased. 

 On I4th January 1808, at a meeting at which 235 

 members were present, a report of the committee of 

 economy (David La Touche, V.P., chairman, General 

 Vallancey, Arthur McGwire, the Rev. Dr. Smyth, 

 Edward Houghton, Lundy Foot and Jeremiah D'Olier), 

 was considered, when new rules, &c., were made, bearing 

 on the offices of assistant secretary, registrar and collec- 

 tor, assistant librarian and housekeeper. The office of 

 assistant secretary was separated from that of registrar, 

 and ^300 a year was fixed on as the salary attaching 

 to it. The registrar and collector was in future to act 

 as accountant. The Rev. Dr. Lyster having just 

 died, Bucknall McCarthy, B.L., was appointed to the 



