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supplied -with, tlie funds and staff necessary to develop it into a Public 

 K'ational Library, under the superintendence of a Council of twelve 

 Trustees, eight of Trbom would be nominated by tbe Eoyal Dublin 

 Society and four by the GoveiTinient. The officers of the Library 

 would be appointed by the Council of Tinistees ; and as the members 

 of the Eoyal Dublin Society woxdd enjoy no greater privileges than 

 the public generally, their present contribution to it would cease. 



" 6. The collections of the Royal Lrish Academy would also be 

 transferred to the Science and Art Museum ; the officers at present 

 in charge of them becoming officers of the Science and Ai't Depart- 

 ment. 



" 7. The Science and Art !Museum, which would thus be an entirely 

 new Institution, having the same scope and object as the Science and 

 Art Museum in Edinburgh, would be maintained and managed in a 

 similar manner. Its collections would consist of purchases, for which 

 an annual vote would be taken; of loans — especially from the South 

 Kensington Museum ; and, it may reasonably be hoped, of donations 

 from public-spirited individuals in Ireland. 



"8. It is believed that it would be most advisable to accommodate 

 the Eoyal Irish Academy in Leinster House, where, after the removal 

 of the Library of the Eoyal Dublin Society, ample space may be found 

 for both the Eoyal Dublin Society and the Eoyal Irish Academy, with 

 well adapted and dignified rooms for their meetings, and for the 

 Library of the latter society. They would also be in proxiroity to the 

 very valuable and interesting artistic and scientific collections of the 

 proposed IS'ational Museum, as well as to the 2>'ational Library, which 

 would then be centred upon this spot. 



" 9. The Art School would be made a special Metropolitan School, 

 the Eoyal Dublin Society being relieved of theii' management of and 

 contributions to it. 



"10. In order to carry out the foregoing aiTangements, and to afiord 

 to the State the requisite control over propeiiy and buildings upon 

 which a large amoiint of public money is to be expended, it will be 

 necessary to obtain an Act of Parliament amending the 17 and 1& 

 Tict., c. xcix., and to vest all the buildings and land now held by the 

 Eoyal Dublin Society in the Government — except the premises front- 

 ing on Kildare-place now used for the Agricultural Museum and Shows 

 by the Eoyal Dublin Society — and to pui'chase, if possible, the fee- 

 simple of such part of the property as is held on lease. 



