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A HISTORY OF 



Smith, John, premium for reclaiming 

 mountain land, 65 



Smith, Mr., of Deanston, lectures on 

 draining land, 277 



Smithfield (Dublin) cattle shows, 344 



Smyth, Edward, master of modelling 

 school, 97, 118, 124, 132, 221 



Smyth, John, master of modelling 

 school, 124, 132 



Smyth, Rev. Dr. Thomas, Hon. Sec., 

 226, 381, 383 



Soap manufacture (Irish), investigation 

 of the condition of, 358 



Social and economic subjects, papers 

 on, 363-4 



Society of Artists, 124, 125 



Society of Arts, England, 120, 121 and 

 n. 1 , 140; work of, for agriculture, 

 140 



Soils of Ireland, paper on the analysis 

 of, 361 



Soldiers, discharged, taking farms, 

 premiums for, 87, 409-10 



Sollas, Prof., 370 



Somerly.G. B., 168 



Southwell, Lord, 46 



Spaight, William, 74 



Spanish asses in cattle show, 345 



Spanish asses, no premium granted 

 for, in 1753 ... 68 



Spectroscopy, paper on, 367 



Spencer, John P., Earl, 290, 380 



Spinning : an essay advocating promo- 

 tion of, 36 



Spinning school, at Cork, 207 



Spring cattle show, 312, 319, 344, 345 ; 

 prizes, 345, 346 ; member visitor's 

 book at, 346 ; entry fee on each head 

 of cattle, 347; shorthorns in, 346, 

 347 ; as a stimulus to cattle breeding, 

 347; change of site mooted, 348; 

 breeding stock entries, 348 ; auction 

 sales revived, 348 



Sproule, John, 362 



Spruce, cones of black, premiums 

 offered for, 62 



Stallions, premiums for, 315, 316 



Standing committees, the, 44, 216, 

 289, 369 ; authority to elect, conferred 

 on Society by the supplementary char- 

 ter ,'289; of the original Society, 14. 

 See also Committees of Management 



Stannus, Col., 245 



Staples, Sir Thomas, 279 



Statistical Surveys of Counties, 154 n., 

 182-4, 211, 243 



Steam-engine, lectures on the, 238 



Stearne's collection of manuscripts, 172 



Steel, Mr., model of a machine with 

 sails, 43 



Steele, Dr. W. E. , assistant secretary, 



283, 287, 291, 384 

 Steele, Joshua (Barbadoes), 217 

 Steenstrup, Prof. K. J. V. ( cited, 167 

 Stephens, Dr. William, 6, 9, 12, 13, 



20, 21, 33, 383 

 Stewart, Donald, mineralogical survey 



by, 154, iss. 156 



Stewart, Sir Robert, 330 

 Stock fishery, premium offered for pro- 

 motion of, 394 

 Stockings, premiums for manufacture 



o f . 57. 4i3 



Stoker, Henry, premium for drawing, 

 114 



Stokes, Rev. Professor G. T., 78 



Stokes, Dr. Whitley, 168, 278 



Stokes, Dr. William, 119, 278 



Stokes' Worthies of the Irish Church, 

 cited, 183 



Stone, George (Archbishop of Armagh), 

 Vice-President, 80, 380 



Stoney, George Johnstone, career of, 

 285-6 ; first recipient of the Boyle 

 Medal, 286, 376; mentioned, 302, 

 304, 309. 376, 382, 384 



Stopford, Thomas, 82 



Strangford, Lord, 46 



Strickland, W. G., cited, 132; Dic- 

 tionary of Irish Artists, cited, 90 n. 2 ', 

 112, 122 n. 1 , 423 



Sturdy, John, premium forwatchplates, 



65 

 Subscriptions: life, 83, 150, 240, 261, 



285; annual, 10, 83, 214, 216, 240, 



249, 261,273-4 

 Subscriptions and arrears, 43-4, 146, 



149-50, 152, 156 n. 1 ; 213, 247, 261 ; 



by-laws as to, 146, 152-3; arrears 



suable for by civil bill, 150, 156 .i; 



action for arrears followed by decline 



in membership, 151 

 Subsoil ploughing, premium for essays 



on, 277 

 Sugar in Irish-grown roots, paper on, 



363. See Beet 

 Sullivan, William K. ( paper on the 



wasteful management of manure 



heaps, 361 ; on the amount of sugar 



in Irish-grown roots, 363 ; on the 



comparative value of large and small 



roots, 363 



Sulphuric acid manufacture, 362 

 Summers, William, premium for 



cottons, &c. , 72 

 Survey of the general work of the 



Society during late eighteenth and 



early nineteenth centuries, 217 et seq. 

 Surveying instruments, awards for, 59, 



