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Conditions of Sale ; and that same shall be completed as soon as 

 possible after the return of the Company's Solicitor, who is at pre- 

 sent in England. 



" I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, 



" (Signed) John Stevenson, 

 " To Robert Ball, LL. D., " Secretary. 



" Treasurer, R. I. A." 



The additions to the present House, to be erected by the Board 

 of Works, were begun in August last, and although the weather 

 during a great part of the winter has been very unfavourable for 

 building, they are now far advanced. The Library has been roofed 

 in ; and the roof of the Museum, which is to be chiefly of glass, 

 is now nearly ready for the glazier. Still, it is impossible that these 

 buildings can be finished and dry enough for occupation, until 

 the end of the summer ; and the Academy must therefore submit 

 for several months to the inconvenience we have suffered since our 

 removal to the present House, of having our Museum and Library 

 in disorder. 



These circumstances induced the Council to listen the more 

 readily to the liberal proposal made by the Committee of the 

 Great Industrial Exhibition, to be held this year in Dublin, to re- 

 ceive our Museum as a whole, and appropriate to it a separate 

 apartment in the building now in progress for the reception of the 

 Exhibition. After some negotiations with the Committee, for the 

 purpose of obtaining such security for the safety of the Museum 

 as the Committee had it in their power to give, the Council agreed 

 to recommend this important measure to the Academy ; and it was 

 resolved, on the 14th ult, that the Museum of the Academy be 

 exhibited in the Great Dublin Exhibition of 1853, on the conditions 

 agreed to between the Council and the Committee of the Exhibi- 

 tion: and that the Council be empowered to take such further 

 steps, from time to time, for the security of the Museum, as to them 

 may seem necessary. 



The conditions finally agreed upon between the Council and 

 the Committee of the Great Exhibition, are in substance these : — 

 That the Committee shall give to the Academy an undertaking 

 in writing, that all such precautions for the safety of the Mu- 



