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A HISTORY OF 



Blackburne, Rt. Hon. Francis, 285, 

 382 



Blacker, James, 94 



Blacker, W. , prize essay, 253 



Black lead, premium offered for dis- 

 covery of, 419 



Blake, Captain Francis, seeks aid in 

 making kelp from seaweed, &c. , 72 



Blakeney, Wm., Lord, statue of, 50 



Blankets, premium awarded for, 68 



Blaquiere, John (Baron De Blaquiere), 

 151-2 



Bleaching, 359 ; sulphuret of lime as a 

 substitute for potash in, 359 



Blind, books for the, 269 



Blood, Edmond, bell founder, memo- 

 rialises the Society, 69 



Bloomfield, Sir Benjamin, 230, 231 



Blow, Daniel, premium for erecting 

 paper mill, 65 



Blue Coat Hospital, in ; boys to be 

 instructed in the drawing schools, 118 



Bliimenbach, 163 



Board of National Education, 341 



Board of National Education Com- 

 missioners, 343 



Board of Trade, Society's annual 

 report to (1856), quoted, 364 



Boardman, John, 176, 229 



Bog butter, scientific examination of, 

 358 



Bog draining and reclamation, 12, 20, 

 61, 65, 68, 145 and n. 2 , 169, 241, 386, 



397 



Bog slide in Kerry, 370 

 Boggs, Gardiner, premiums for her- 

 rings, 70 

 Bogs, Irish, Commission on, 169; MS. 



reports on, made for R.D.S., 180 

 Bolton, Edward, premium for hops, 58 

 Bolton, Theophilus (Archbishop of 



Cashel), 10, 20 

 Bone lace, 58, 61, 141, 413 

 Bosquet, David, manufactures sheet 



lead and copper, 73 



Boswell, J. Knight, 362 



Botanic Garden, premises in Mecklen- 



burgh St. taken for a (1739), 88, 186 ; 



premises at Summer Hill, 186 



Botanic Garden, Glasnevin, the, 186 



et seq. ; establishment of, 186-7, 



263, 355 ; part of boundary wall 



blown down, 271 ; professor and 



lecturer appointed, 159-60, 355 ; 



recommendations of the professor, 



1830 ... I94-S ;. expense of, 



190 ; experiment with apprentices, 



192-3; fully described, 1818 . . . 



194 ; number of visitors to (1835-6), 



195 ; in 1861 . . . 197 ; friction 

 between the Government and the 

 Society as to Sunday opening of, 

 197 ; extent of, in 1861 . . . 

 197; Society's connection with, 

 ceases, 197 ; progress since, 197 



Catalogues (class), 191 



Conservatories, 196 



Fete, 287 



Gardens, different classes of, 194 ; 

 Hortus Hibernicus, 194 



Herbarium, 197 



Hothouses, 191, 192, 193, 196 



Meteorological observations, 359, 



369 



Museum, 197 



Norfolk Island pine, 193 



Orchid house, 197 



Palm house, 193, 196 



Staff, work of the, 357 



Victoria House, 197 

 Botanical papers in the Society's 



Transactions, 359 

 Botany lectures at cattle show, 345 

 Botany premiums, 160 ; for discovery 



of new Irish plants, 227 

 Boulter, Hugh, Primate, 10, 13, 28, 



30, 380 

 Boyd, H. , 20 



Boyle, Henry, Earl of Shannon, 27 

 Boyle, John, 5th Earl of Orrery, 29, 



3 



Boyle Medal, the (scientific), 373 et 

 seq. 



Boyle, the Hon. Robert, 373; the 

 scientific work of, 374-5 ; the Boyle 

 Lectures, 375 ; mentioned, i, 7 



Boyse, Mr., establishes a school of 

 agriculture at Taghmon, 223 



Boyton, Mr., premium for hats, 63 



Bradshaw, John, edition of Chester- 

 field's Letters, quoted, 47, 48, 75, 76 



Brady, Cheyne, paper on the improve- 

 ment of labouring class dwellings, 



364 

 Brady, Nicholas William, gold thread 



manufacturer, memorialises the 



Society, 69 



Brady, Sir Maziere (Bart.), 69 .*, 284 

 Braughall, Thomas, Hon. Sec., 115, 



2 S5. 2 5 6 . 383 

 Bread : How to make, without barm : 



a letter, 50 

 Breaking-up ground, premiums for, 58, 



59 



Breeding stock entries at Ballsbridge 

 cattle shows, 348 



Brenan, Edward, paper on fossil re- 

 mains in co. Waterford, 366 



