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(1) N'ot to accept the scheme of amalgamation with the Eoyal 



Diihlin Society ; and 



(2) Not to acquiesce in the transfer of the charge of its vote from 



the Irish Government to the Science and Art Department. 



The Report was received. 



It was moved by the Yery Eev. Dr. Russell and seconded by Lord 

 Yiscount Gough — 



'' That the Academy approves of the action taken by the Council 

 in declining to entertain the proposition of Amalgamation." 



The following, as an amendment, was moved by G-. J. Stoney, M. A., 

 P. R. S., and seconded by Professor J. E. Reynolds, M.D. 



" That the Academy is prepared to consider a scheme for amalgama- 

 tion with the Royal Dublin Society, provided : — 



1. " That Agriculture shall be wholly excluded from the new body. 



2. " That the proposed body of Pellows of the new body shall con- 

 sist of the existing Members of the Academy. 



3. ''That the Museum of the Academy, together with such other 

 Irish antiquities as may be added to it, shall be for ever kept apart 

 from other collections, and be permanently maintained as a Museum 

 of our national antiquities, no portion of its contents being ever 

 removed from the City of Dublin, unless by permission given under 

 the seal of the new Society. 



4. "That a capital sum shall be paid to the new Society in conside- 

 ration of property surrendered to Government by the Royal Irish 

 Academy and by the Royal Dublin Society. 



5. "That the new Society shall be accountable to Her Majesty's 

 Treasury through the Irish Government for all sums voted by Parlia- 

 ment, and shall not be subject in the conduct of its affairs, or the ex- 

 penditure of its grants, to any control on the part of the Science and 

 Art Department, or any of its officers." 



This was ruled by the Yice-President not to be an Amendment. 



The Resolution was then put to the Academy and the Yice-Presi- 

 dent declared it carried. 



The Rev. Dr. Carson moved, and David R. Pigot, M. A., seconded — 



" That the Academy protests against the transfer from the Irish 

 Government of the charge of the Academy's Parliamentary Grant, and 

 declares its determination to forego all claims on the bounty of Par- 

 liament rather than apply to the Science and Art Department of the 

 Committee of Council on Education for any issue of its grant." 



