( cxxxvl ) 



2. To this the following reply was sent at the instance of the- 

 Council of the Academy : — 



" EoTAi Ieish A-Cademt, 19, Dawson-street, 

 " I8tk of April, 1876. 



" I am directed by the Council of theEoyal Irish Academy 

 to forward to you a copy of the following Resolution passed by them at 

 their last Meeting : — 



" 'That the Council of the Royal Irish Academy are not pre- 

 pared to recommend any amalgamation of the lloyal Irish Aca- 

 demy with the Eoyal Dublin Society.' 



" And I am instructed to add, that it is the opinion of the Council 

 that, under these cii'cumstances, the inter'sdew with a Deputation 

 from the Royal Dublin Society, proposed in your letter of the 6thinst.^ 

 could lead to no useful result. 



" I am. Sir, 



" Your obedient Servant, 



(Signed) " Johit K. Ingeam, 



" Secretary of CotmciL 

 " W. E. Steele, Esq., M.D., 



" Registrar, Royal Dublin Society.''^ 



3. The communication from the Royal Dublin Society being for the 

 purpose of obtaining the opinion of the Council, and there being an 

 expectation of an official reply to the Academy's Resolutions, the 

 Council did not think it advisable as yet to report to the Academy on 

 the correspondence with the Royal Dublin Society's Deputation. 



4. They now, however, hasten to communicate to the Academy the 

 following letter received from the Irish Government, with the en- 

 closures herein : — 



[N.B. — The figures in heavy type prefixed to the letters, indicate 

 the chronological order in which they were written.] 



