258 A HISTORY OF 



CHAPTER XVI 



SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE SOCIETY, ITS 



REPORT, AND THE NEW CONSTITUTION 



(1836-1838) 



IT was ordered by the House of Commons on the 

 23rd of March 1836, that a select committee be ap- 

 pointed to enquire into the administration of the 

 Royal Dublin Society, with a view to a wider extension 

 of the advantages of the annual parliamentary grant 

 to that Institution, when the following members were 

 appointed on it : 



Mr. William Smith O'Brien Mr. More O'Ferrall. 



(who took the chair). Mr. Anthony Lefroy. 



Lord Viscount Acheson. Mr. George Evans. 



Lord Francis Egerton. Mr. Vesey. 



Mr. Sharman Crawford. Mr. Bellew. 



Mr. Dunbar. Mr. William Stuart. 



Mr. Wyse. Lord Viscount Sandon. 



Mr. Jephson. Mr. Robert Stewart. 



Lord Acheson, Lord Sandon, and Mr. Bellew were 

 discharged from attendance, and Captain Jones, Mr. 

 Dillwyn, and Mr. Serjeant Jackson were added to 

 the committee. It sat from the 2Oth of April to the 

 loth of June 1836, and the following witnesses were 

 examined : Isaac Weld, honorary secretary, Robert 

 Hutton, Charles William Hamilton, Richard Griffith, 

 William Harty, M.D., Samuel Litton, M.D., professor 

 of botany, and Captain Joseph E. Portlock. 



