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seum shall be taken as the Council shall deem necessary ; that 

 full access to the Museum at all times shall he given to such par- 

 ties as shall be authorized by the Council to watch over its arrange- 

 ment and safe keeping; and that the expenses of all such necessary 

 precautions, as well as of the insurance of the Museum against fire, 

 shall be borne by the Committee of the Exhibition. To carry out 

 these arrangements, the Council have appointed a Committee, con- 

 sisting of the Treasurer and Secretaries, with Dr. Petrie and Dr. 

 Aquilla Smith, who are empowered to direct the necessary measures 

 for the exhibition, arrangement, and safe keeping of the Academy's 

 Museum, in the Building of the Great Exhibition. They have also 

 authorized the Assistant Secretary to co-operate with this Commit- 

 tee in carrying their orders into effect, and to take such steps as 

 may be necessary for the removal of the Museum into the Exhibi- 

 tion Building. 



By these concessions on the part of the Academy, it is hoped 

 that our Museum will form a striking and attractive feature in the 

 approaching Exhibition, and that the disadvantage under which we 

 would otherwise have laboured, from the unfinished state of our 

 present House, will be more than counterbalanced. The Committee 

 of the Exhibition have caused casts of several ancient ecclesi- 

 astical crosses, and other objects of architectural interest, to be 

 taken, with a view to their exhibition. All these they have kindly 

 signified their intention of ultimately depositing in the Museum 

 of the Academy. They have also procured the loan, for exhi- 

 bition, of some valuable Irish antiquities, now in the hands of 

 private individuals. These, with our Museum, will constitute the 

 largest and most important collection of national antiquities that 

 has ever, perhaps, been presented to the study and examination 

 of antiquaries in this country. The Council would, therefore, 

 anticipate a very important movement in favour of antiquarian 

 science from the approaching Exhibition ; which will afford an 

 opportunity of examining in juxta-position a collection of antiqui- 

 ties such as has never before been brought together : and it cannot 

 be doubted, that if this peculiar feature of the Dublin Exhibition 

 is made generally known, it will attract to this city, during the 

 approaching summer, not only the antiquaries of London and 



