139 
By 614 sales up to 16th March, . . . . . £122 16 0 
Thus expended :— 
To Prospectus, Circulars, and Postage, as per 
Treasurer’s account, to 3lst March, 1858, . 10.-§ 3 
Drawing and Wood-cutting, . . . .. =. 41 2 «0 
Registration of Museum, . . . 4. - - 50 38 4 
Mranscmping Cataloope, =. . -. . . 2p 
£105 11 7 
“T am yours truly, 
“W. R. Wipe. 
“To the Secretary of the Royal Irish Academy.” 
Tn accordance with a Resolution of the Council, the Secretary of the 
Academy read the following letter from Colonel Larcom :— 
‘¢ Pua@nix Park, 3rd March, 1859. 
‘My pear Graves,—Lord Wrottesley’s Address to the Royal Society 
has brought again to my mind a subject we were speaking of some time 
ago, viz.:—That we have no portraits of our three last Presidents, 
Hamilton, Lloyd, Robinson. Where, in the march of Science and of 
intellect in Ireland, can we move without coming into contact with one 
or other of these names? Let us redress this injustice to ourselves be- 
fore they pass away; for, wanting their portraits on our walls, we have 
failed to claim them for our own. 
“The portraits of Presidents which we now possess have been painted 
by subscription, in, however, equal honour, no doubt. But subscrip- 
tions, when we raise them as we often do, can be advantageously sup- 
plied in other ways, and, as a continuous mode of providing portraits of 
public men, a subscription is a clumsy machinery. It is a noble dis- 
tinction to fill our Chair, and it is still more so to be installed in perpe- 
tuity before the Members of the Academy for all time. 
‘Why not, then, ask each President to present his own portrait on 
leaving the Chair? Let each of the three I have named be now applied 
to, and let it be understood henceforward that every President, at the 
close of his Presidency, be expected, without any especial request, to 
do so. Fixasize, a form of frame suitable to the place or room in 
which it may be thought best to place them, in either a President’s Gal- 
lery, or, perhaps, over the bookcases in the Library. This must, of 
course, be done by resolution of the Academy, on the recommendation of 
Council. 
«Would you throw out the idea for consideration, at the next Meet- 
ing of Council ? 
‘‘ Your obedient servant, 
(Signed) “Tomas A. Larcom. 
“‘Lord Wrottesley’s Address is at page 499, No, 33, Proceedings, 
Royal Society of London.” 
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