THE ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY 445 



Labourers' dwellings, improvement of, 

 paper on, 364 ; paper on, contributed 

 to the Journal, 367. See Agricultural 

 Labourer 



Lacam, John, medal for landscape, 

 114 



Lace, exhibition of, 320 



Lace, made on catgut, 67 



Lace, premiums for, 56, 58, 61, 62, 64, 

 67, 413, 414 



Lace, thread for, premium awarded 

 for, 59 

 See also Bone Lace 



Ladaveze, Mr., 115 



Ladies, admission of, as associates, 

 3" 



Lafeldt cream separator, 332 



Landed property, prize essay on 

 management of, 253 



Lane, D. H., 335 



Lanesborough, Humphrey, ist Earl of, 

 80, 88, 89, 380 



Langrishe, Sir Robert, 228 



Lanigan, Rev. Dr. John, Society's 

 librarian, 71, 175-6, 177, 180, 228 ; 

 Institutiones Biblicce by, 175 ; Ec- 

 clesiastical History of Ireland by, 

 176 



Laocoon, cast of, presented, 117 



Lapham, Samuel, premium for cottons, 

 &c., 72 



Lapis calaminaris discovered in Sligo, 

 84 



Lardner, Dr. Dionysius, 238 ; lectures 

 for the Society, 238 ; Cabinet Cyclo- 

 pedia, 238 



La Touche, David Digges, 79 



La Touche, Rt. Hon. David, vice-pre- 

 sident, 117 andn., 236, 381 



La Touche, George, bequest of Etrus- 

 can vases, 245 



La Touche, James Digges, 79 



La Touche, Peter Digges, vice-pre- 

 sident, 104, 236, 381 



La Touche, Robert, 345 



Laurence, Edward, 92 



Laval cream separator, 332 



Lawes, Sir John Burnet, 367 



Lawless, Valentine B. See Clon curry, 

 Lord 



Lawrence, Dr. , 272 



Lawson, Dr. Henry, 366-7 



Leacan, book of, formerly in Lombards 

 College, Paris, now in Royal Irish 

 Academy, 147 



Lead and copper (sheet) manufactured, 

 73 



Leader, Nicholas P., 104, 177 



Lecky, W. E. H., cited, 4, 32-3 ; Ire- 



land in the Eighteenth Century, 

 quoted, 5 



Lecture Theatre, 325, 326 ; the new 

 buildings, 326 et seq. ; ventilation, 

 326, 327, 328; cost, 327; seating 

 accommodation, 327 ; false ceiling, 

 327 ; the screen for lantern projec- 

 tions, 327-8 ; the platform, 328 ; 

 the organ, 328 



Lectures on steam-engines, &c., 237- 

 8 



Lectures in provincial towns, 277, 283, 

 285 



Lectures in chemistry and natural 

 philosophy, 160-1, 246, 356; after- 

 noon lectures, 356 ; Christmas lectures 

 for juveniles, 356 



Lectures, question of gratuitous ad- 

 mission to, 247, 263, 266 



Lee, Mr. (Wexford), premium for 

 hops, 58 



Lee [Anth.] (artist), no 



Lee and Kennedy, 190 



Leech, Charles, 134 



Legacy to the Society, 149 



Legacies to the Society, intimation of, 

 rewarded, 84 



Le Hunte, Francis, 6, 9 



Le Hunte, P., 229 



Le Hunte, Richard, 9 



Le Hunte, Thomas, 199, 381 



Le Hunte, Major, 220 



Leicester, Thomas Coke, Earl of, 231-2 



Leigh, John, 152, 381 



Leinster, agriculture in, 247 



Leinster coalfields, 168, 169 



Leinster, Duchess of, 199 



Leinster, Augustus Frederick, Duke of, 

 104 



Leinster, Charles William, Duke of, 

 279, 280, 291, 380, 382 



Leinster, James, ist Duke of. See 

 Kildare, Earl of 



Leinster, William Robert, Duke of, 

 103, 114, 381 



Leinster House, vi, 78, 95-6, 98 et seq. ; 

 James Malton's account of, 100-3 ' 

 pictures in, 102, 422-3 ; mantelpieces 

 in, 104 ; the registrar's office in, 104 ; 

 acquired by the Society, 104, 106, 

 107, 213 ; alterations and rearrange- 

 ments, 105, 107; the "kitchen," 

 106, 325; the lawn, 106 ; expendi- 

 ture on the house and new buildings, 

 107 ; stable and coach houses, 127 ; 

 damaged by storm, 271 ; additional 

 buildings and alterations for, 272 ; 

 works of art in, 149, 158, 422 et seq.; 

 accommodation in, under the 



