THE ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY 



439 



213-4; House of Commons com- 

 mittee's recommendations on Society's 

 estimates and funds, 246, 262. And 

 see under Parliamentary grants 

 Fine Arts, the, premiums for, 415 

 Fine Arts Exhibition, 288, 317 

 Fingal, steam yacht used in the fishing 



survey, 335, 336 

 Finlayson, Rev. John, Inscriptions in 



Christ Church Cathedral, cited, 81 

 Fire clay, premiums for, 420 

 Fish : premiums for catching, curing, 

 and exporting, 64, 66, 70, 394 et seq., 

 418-19 ; letter as to crimping cod, 

 &c., 59 



Fisher, Jonathan, artist, 113, 122 

 Fisheries, French works on, translated, 



7i 



Fisheries (Irish), as an industrial re- 

 source, paper on, 361 ; and allied 

 industries, 362 ; a paper on the cod 

 and ling fisheries of Ireland, 366 ; on 

 the salmon and other fisheries, 367 ; 

 on sea coast fisheries, 368 ; a paper 

 on the destruction of, by trawling. 

 23; articles on, published in the 

 Transactions, 359 ; necessity for sur- 

 veys, harbours, &c. , 243 



Fisheries : Society's efforts to promote 

 the fishing industry, 243, 333 et seq. ; 

 survey of the fishing grounds, 334-5, 

 370 ; report on the west coast fisheries, 

 336 ; investigation of the life history 

 of food fishes, 336-7. See also under 

 Fish, Flounder, and Sea Fisheries 



Fisheries, treatise on, 1738 ... 23 



Fisheries and Fishery Laws, committee 

 to consider, 71 



Fishing industry, earliest notice of the 

 Society's interest in, 1733 ... 22 



FitzGerald, Geo. Francis, secretary, 

 309. 3io 



Fitzgerald, Lord Edward, 100 



Fitzgerald, George, bounty for land 

 surveying instrument, 221 



Fitzwilliam, Lord, 106, 118 



Flax: culture of, 18, 23, 24,37; pre- 

 miums for, 56 



Flax dressing, 32 ; premiums for, 57 ; 

 articles on, 37 



Flax, on the cultivation of, a paper by 

 E. W. Davy, 367 



Flax plant, papers by Sir Robert Kane, 

 on, 361-2 



Flax seed, premiums for, 56 



Flora Danicce, purchased for the Lib- 

 rary, 173 and n. 



Flora Rustica Hiternica, projected by 

 the Society, 191 



Flounder fishery, premium for promo- 

 tion of, 394 



Flynn, John, premium for catching 

 fish, 66 



Fodder crops, experiments on cultiva- 

 tion of, 357 



Foley, John Henry (sculptor), 133, 

 279; original cast of his "Youth at 

 the Stream," presented, 133 



Folkes, Martin, 46 



Fcmbally, Mr., premium for buff, 64 

 and n. 



Food, cooked, comparative nutritive 

 and pecuniary values of, a paper on, 

 361 



Foot, Lundy Edward, Hon. Sec. and 

 V.-P., 133, 272, 279, 280, 282, 285, 

 287, 382, 383 ; memoir of Isaac Weld 



by, 3 6 S 



Foot, Simon, 267 



Foote, Samuel, cited, 83 



Ford, Mr., 115, 204 



Forester, James, premium for drawing, 

 no 



Forts. See Danish 



Fossiliferous caves of Malta, paper on, 

 366 



Fossils, Arctic, papers on, 363, 366; 

 remains, discovery of, paper on, 366 



Foster, Anthony, Chief Baron, 84, 85 



Foster, John Leslie, Baron of the Ex- 

 chequer, 104, 254, 269, 381, 383 



Foster, Rt. Hon. John (Lord Oriel), 

 225-6; portraits of, 120, 131, 225, 

 226; mentioned, 85, 91, 120, 190, 

 222, 340, 381 



Fox, Richard, 177 



Frankfort de Montmorency, Lord, 106, 

 141 w. 2 , 228, 381. See also Morres, 

 Lodge 



Franklin, Lady, 281 



Franklin, Sir John, 254, 281, 287 ; 

 McClintock's reminiscences of travel 

 in search of, 365 



Eraser's book on Fisheries, 243 



Freeman's Journal, 28 



Freemasonry in Vienna, 164 



French Revolution and French litera- 

 ture, numerous works on, in Joly 

 collection, 179 



French, Humphry, account of, 25, 29- 

 30 



French, Robert, gold medal for re- 

 claiming bog, 145 and n. z 



Friendly Brothers of St. Patrick erect 

 statue of Lord Blakeney, 50 



Fruit trees raised in nurseries, pre- 

 miums for, 58 



Fry, William, 285 



