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A HISTORY OF 



Fuller, Joseph, premium for reclaiming 



bog, 61 

 Fuller's earth, pits discovered, 154; 



premiums for, 420 

 Fustians, production of: premiums for, 



57, 59. 6 4. 72 



GAELIC Society, the, cited, 175 n. 



Gages, Alphonse, 363 



Gallagher, John, sculptor, 128, 129, 

 and n. 



Gandon, James, architect, 231, 232-3; 

 mentioned, 105, 122, 124 



Gaol, county, prize for plan of a, 144-5 



Gardeners, school for, 193 



Garnett, George, 345 



Garstin, J. Ribton, on Maces, Swords, 

 and other Insignia, cited, 288 



Geale, Alderman Benjamin, 198 



General Farming Society. See Farm- 

 ing Society 



General Meeting of the Society, resolu- 

 tion as to, 261 



Gent, Mr. (Kilkenny), premium for 

 fining flax, 57 



Gentleman's Magazine, The, quoted, 

 90 



Geoghegan, Samuel, 328, 329 



Geoghegan r William Purser, 329 



Geological map of Ireland (Griffith's), 

 169 



George II, King, 84; statue of, en St. 

 Stephen's Green, proposed removal 

 to Leinster Lawn, 106 



George III, King, address to, on his 

 accession, 84 



George IV, King, becomes Patron of 

 the Society, 241 ; visit to Ireland and 

 to Leinster House, 241-2 ; statues of, 

 126, 242, 424 



German works translated for the Society, 



175 



Giant's Causeway, the, 7, 43 ; speci- 

 mens from, for the Society, 155 ; 

 paintings (S. Drury) and engravings 

 of, 57, 424 



Gibal, Mr. , premium for buff, 64 

 Giesecke, Charles Lewis (Karl Ludwig 

 Metzler), 163 etseq.; friend of Goethe 

 and the supposed original of Wilhelm 

 Meister, 164; associated with Mozart, 

 164 ; study of mineralogy by, 164 ; 

 elected professor of mineralogy in 

 the Dublin Society, 163, 165 ; travels 

 in Greenland, 165 ; reports of minera- 

 logical excursions by, 166, 358 ; cata- 

 logue of minerals collected by, in 

 the Arctic regions, 366 ; manuscript 

 volumes on mineralogy, 180 ; pre- 



sented with gold medal, 165 ; death 

 of, 166; tablet to the memory of, 

 167; his portrait by Raeburn, 167; 

 the autograph albums of, 167 ; bio- 

 graphical notes on, 167; mentioned, 

 157, 180, 271 



Gieseckite, 165 and n. 



Giffard, Henri, dirigible balloon of, 363 



Gifford, Rev. R. N., premium for 

 planting trees, 68 



Gilbert, Sir John, History of Dublin, 

 cited, 3, 83, 100, 126, 147, 235 .*; 

 quoted, 199 



Gilborne, John, 85 



Gladwell, Thomas, premium for ale, 62 



Glasnevin, Albert Institution, 340 



Glasnevin, Society's Botanic Garden at, 

 1 87 et seq. 



Glasnevin, turnpike gates removed, 192 



Glasnevin watermill, 191 and n., 192. 

 See Botanic Garden 



Glass gilding, bounty for, 218 



Glass manufacture, premiums for, 74 



Glassware, premiums for, 65, 66 



Glass (window) manufacture, 244 



Gloves, premiums for manufacture of, 

 4i3 



Goethe's Faust, first rendering of, into 

 English verse, 178 



Goethe's Wilhelm Meister, 164 



Gold mines of Wicklow, 359 



Goldberg, Citizen : honorary member, 

 230 



Gore, Sir Arthur (afterwards Earl of 

 Arran), 80, 380 



Gorges, Mr., 163 



Grafton Street house, premises of the 

 Society (1767-1796), 89-94, 113; de- 

 scription of, 90-1 ; chimney-pieces 

 in, 90, 94 



Graham, Henry, 122 



Graham, William, art student, 114; 

 grant for his maintenance, 114 



Graham's Dyke (Scotland), a paper on 

 Roman inscriptions found in, 21 



Grahl, John, bounty for gilding cut 

 glass, 218 



Grand Canal Company's ground at 

 Glasnevin purchased, 191 



Grandison, John, Earl of, 80, 380 



Grant, Right Hon. William, 241 



Granville, Mary. See Delany, Mrs. 



Grass, premiums for, 63 



Gratton, George (artist), works of, pur- 

 chased, 119, 124 



Graves, Rev. Robert P., Memoir of Sir 

 W. R. Hamilton, 256 



Grayson, Anthony, premium for velvet 

 and silk, 68 



