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Tuesday, March 16th, 1852. (Stated Meeting.) 



THOMAS ROMNEY ROBINSON, D.D., President, 



in the Chair. 



It was Resolved: — 



That the Answer given by the late Lord Lieutenant to 

 the Address of the Academy, as reported in the Dublin Even- 

 ing Post of the 26th of February, be entered on the Minutes. 



The following is the Address, with His Excellency's An- 

 swer : — 



" To His Excellency the Right Honourable George William 

 Frederick Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant General and 

 General Governor of Ireland, 8fc. 



" May it please your Excellency, 



" We, the President and Members of the Royal Irish 

 Academy, beg to express our deep sense, not merely of the 

 important benefit which has recently been conferred upon us 

 by your Excellency, but of the active and intelligent sympa- 

 thy with which you have invariably encouraged our exertions 

 and forwarded our objects. We had hoped to give utterance 

 to these feelings in a more public and impressive form, on our 

 approaching inauguration in the new abode which you have 

 provided for us ; but, at least, we will not permit your Excel- 

 lency's official connexion with us, as Visitor of the Academy, 

 to terminate without a distinct expression of our gratitude for 

 the way in which the duties of that office have been performed 

 by your Excellency. 



" The exertions of the Academy were long fettered by the 



nature of the locality in which, for the last sixty years, it has 



been established. Its deliverance from this evil could only be 



effected by the union of the power to aid it with the mind 



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