THE ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY 455 



Scouler, Dr., professor of mineralogy, 



167, 269, 363 ; contributions by, to the 



Evening Scientific Meetings, 361 

 Sculpture, school of, 124. See Model- 

 ling School 

 Sculpture and the Fine Arts : premiums 



and awards for, 59, 61, 64, in, 114, 



128 

 Sea fisheries : premiums for catching, 



curing, and exporting fish, 69-70, 71 ; 



defence of fishermen by the Society, 



70 



Sea-fishing, award for a machine for, 69 

 Seal of the Society, the, 79, 224, 376 

 Seals in north-west coast fishing 



grounds, premiums for destruction 



of, 71 

 Secondary Schools, science teaching 



in, 373 



Secretaries : rules as to the, 15 ; Hono- 

 rary and Assistant, of the Royal 



Dublin Society, list of the, 383-4 

 Seguin, Henry, medal for plans, &c., 



115 ; executes stipple engraving, 116 ; 



Society subscribes to his School of 



Fencing, 116 

 Seppings, Sir Robert, Bart. ; hon. 



member, 255 

 Sexton, Joseph, premium for building 



paper mill, 65 ; premium for paper, 67 

 Seybert, Adam, 227 

 Seymour, Sir Michael, 230 

 Shannon, Earl of, 27 

 Shannon, Lady, 199 

 Shannon river, survey and chart of, 



presented, 146 

 Shaw, Sir Robert, Vice-President, 



152 n. 2 , 229, 381 

 Shaw's Court, Dame Street, Society's 



house in, 1757-67 . . . 88-90 

 Shedlock, J. S., 330 

 Shee, Sir Martin Archer, P.R.A., 116, 



129, 255 ; medal for portraits, 115 

 Sheehan, (artist), 113 

 Sheep- rot, recipes for, printed by the 



Society, 51 



Sheffield, Earl of, 230 

 Sheldon, Professor J. P., 331 

 Shelly, Charles, premium for planting 



trees, 60 

 Sheppard, Anthony, jun., 10, 13, 21, 23, 



24, 31 and n. , 385 ; sen., 31 and n. 

 Sheridan, Dr. Thomas, 30, 31 n., 142 

 Shipbuilding, encouragement of, 277 

 Shorthorns in cattle show, 346, 347 

 Shuldham, Mr., marble on his estate in 



Longford, 155 

 Sidmouth, Lord, 241 

 Sidney, F. J., 285 



Silk manufacture, in Dublin , 198 et seq. ; 

 unemployment among the weavers, 

 199 ; superintendence of manufacture 

 and regulation of wages by the Dublin 

 Society, 200, 240 ; ruling of the 

 Society as to female labour, 200 ; 

 state of, in Ireland, 200-1 ; number 

 of persons engaged in, in Dublin, 

 200, 201 ; the question of wages of 

 silk winders, 201-2 ; premium for raw 

 silk manufacture, 84 



Silk warehouse established for re- 

 tail trade, 198-9 ; the patronesses, 

 199 ; value of stock and returns of 

 sales, 199 ; toasts among the weavers, 

 199; Society's connection with, ceases, 

 200, 202 ; Society asked to resume 

 responsibility, 200 ; investigation of 

 the title to, 202; Considerations on. 

 the Silk Trade in Ireland, quoted, 

 202-3 



Silk weavers' steel reeds, premiums for, 

 412 



Silver cake-basket, premium in 1769, 

 purchased for National Museum, 

 I4S-6 



Silver mines in Tipperary, 21 



Simon, James, his Account of Irish 

 Coins, 46 and n. 2 



Sims, Edward, premiums for bulls, &c. , 



63 

 Sinclair, Sir John, president, English 



Board of Agriculture, 93, 221 ; 



honorary member, 224 

 Sinclair, R. G. (organist), 328 

 Singleton, Sydenham, 152, 381 

 Sirr, Major, 228 

 Skelton, Rev. Philip, 46, 52 

 Skerries fishermen obtain awards, 69, 70 

 Slate quarries found, 155 

 Slater's Culture of Flax , 18 

 Slater (or Slator), Thomas, premiums 



for paper, 64, 67 

 Slater, William, premium for erecting 



paper mill, 65 



Sleater's Newspaper, 69, 141 

 Sleater, William, 141 

 Sligo, Marquis of, 222 

 Small Holdings, improvement in tillage 



in, 321 et seq, 



Smalt, premium for manufacture of, 415 

 Smilie, John, & Co., premium for glass 



manufacture, 74 

 Smith, S. Catterson, R.H.A., 134, 179, 



422 

 Smith, Dr. Charles, 45, 46 ; History of 



Cork, 46 ; History of Kerry, 46, 



cited, 22 n. z 

 Smith, Henry, quoted, 347 



