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Monday, April 25th, 1853. 



THOMAS ROMNEY ROBINSON, D. D., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary of the Council read the correspondence be- 

 tween the Council and the General Committee of the Great 

 Industrial Exhibition in Dublin, since the last meeting of the 

 Academy, together with the amended conditions agreed to 

 between the Sub- Committee of the Council and the Fine Arts 

 Committee of the Exhibition, and the following Resolution of 

 the General Committee, viz. : — " That this Committee, having 

 had before them the conditions on which the Royal Irish 

 Academy propose to lend the Museum of Antiquities for Ex- 

 hibition, agree to accept the Academy's offer, with the under- 

 standing that the inspection of the Collection of Antiquities 

 in the Exhibition Building be confined to the Treasurer, Dr. 

 Ball, and the Assistant Librarian, Mr. Clibborn, who shall 

 have access at all times for that purpose." 



Read, — The following recommendation of the Council : 

 "That the Academy approve of the articles of agreement 

 on which it is now proposed to exhibit the Academy's Museum." 

 To which the following addition, as an amendment, was moved 

 by John F. Waller, LL. D., seconded by the Rev. Samuel 

 Haughton : — " That the articles of agreement, &c. be agreed 

 to, provided, that in case either of the persons having the 

 right of visiting the Collection of the Academy be unavoidably 

 absent, the Council of the Academy shall have the right of 

 nominating his substitute." A division having been called 

 for, there were — 



For the amendment, ... 29 

 Against it, 12 



Whereupon the President declared the recommendation of the 



