43 8 



A HISTORY OF 



Employers and Labourers (Mr. Ber- 

 mingham's proposal on relations be- 

 tween), 89 



Employment for the people: Society's 

 interest in, 51, 63, 64 



Enamelled watchplates, a prize for, 65 



Encyclopedic, the, purchased for the 

 library, 173 



" English tongue," care of, recom- 

 mended to the Society by Bishop of 

 Down, 42 



Engraved print, premium offered for, 

 417 



Ennis, Jacob, 113, 130, 131 



Ensor, George, premium for plan of 

 small houses, 63 



Escritoire, 1753, now m the Society's 

 possession, 89 



Esterhazy, Prince Nicholas, 230 



Esterhazy, Prince Paul, 230 



Esterhazy, Count Joseph, 230 (honorary 

 members) 



Estimates and expenditure of the 

 D.S. : recommendations of House of 

 Commons Committee on, 246, 262 



Etruscan vases, collection of, be- 

 queathed to the Society, 245 



Eustace, Clotilda, 189 



Eustace, Sir Maurice (of Harristown), 

 189 



Evelyn [John], cited, i 



Evening Scientific Meetings, the, 254, 

 269, 360 et seq. ; minutes of, contained 

 in the Society's Proceedings, 1836-9, 

 360; reports of, 1848-55, 362 



Examinations in elementary education, 

 established, 287 



Exhibition, the Great Industrial, 1853, 

 in connection with R.D.S. , 281 et 

 seq.; H.M. Queen Victoria visits it, 

 282 



Exhibition of art industries, 317, 320 ; 

 Hall, 320. See Industrial 



Exhibition of fine arts and art manu- 

 factures, 317 



Exhibition of Irish artists, 1801, 118, 



12 5 

 Exhibitions of manufactures, 246, 253, 



271, 280, 317 et seq., 365 

 Experimental Philosophy, lectures in, 



160 



Experiments, rules as to, 15 

 Exshaw, Alderman, 228 



FACTORY of the Society in Poolbeg 

 Street, 91, 92, 93 ; object of the insti- 

 tution, 93 ; sale of implements of 

 husbandry at, 93 



Fagan, James, 277 



Fairfield, Chas. G., 282 



Falkiner, C. Litton, Essays Relating to 



Ireland, cited, 80 

 Farm prizes, 324 



Farm produce exhibition, 277, 346, 349 

 Farmer's Monthly Calendar, prize 



offered for a, 69, 396 

 Farmhouses, premiums for plans, &c. , 



254 



Farming : Dublin Society's scheme to 

 improve, by itinerant instruction and 

 example holdings, 322, 323 ; prize 

 holdings at Swinford, co. Mayo, 322 ; 

 during period following the Irish 

 Land Act, 324 



Farming Association. See Co-operative 



Farming Societies, 222 ; number of, in 

 receipt of grants from the Dublin 

 Society, 298 ; beneficial effects of the 

 Society's efforts for, 298 ; General 

 Farming Society, 1800-28 . . . 222-3 



Farming Society, the, 159, 222-3, 2 34. 

 247 ; cattle shows held by, 344 ; care 

 in awarding the prizes, 344 ; received 

 a subsidy from the Dublin Society, 

 344. See Antrim, Clare, Fermanagh, 

 Kerry, Kildare, Louth, Mayo, Ros- 

 common 



Farms, premium for essay on consoli- 

 dation of, 252 



Farren, Wm., 177 



Faulkner, George ( ' ' Peter Paragraph ") , 

 printer, 83 ; his bust of Dean Swift 

 presented to St. Patrick's Cathedral, 

 83; mentioned, 22 n. 1 , 29, 51 



Faulkner's Dublin Journal, 34, 80, 92, 

 113, 136, 141 



Feinagle. See Von Feinagle 



Fellows, by-laws providing for election 

 of, proposed, 308, 310 



Felt hats, premiums for, 414 



Fenn, Joseph, Instructions given in the 

 Drawing School, D.S., &c., 112 



Ferguson, Mr., designs glasshouses at 

 Glasnevin, 196 



Fermanagh Farming Society, 222 



Finances of the Society, 209 et seq. ; 

 grants of public money to, 209, 211, 

 213 ; Commissioners of Imprest Ac- 

 counts requisition for particulars, 

 209-10 ; Committee of Inquiry into 

 state of Society's funds, 210 ; petition 

 to Parliament for assistance, an; 

 financial responsibilities in 1803, 212; 

 annual expenses in 1803, 212; 

 financial position after the acqusition 

 of Leinster House, 213 ; reduction 

 in the grant of the Imperial Parlia- 

 ment, 213 ; estimates for 1832-3, 



