84 Royal Irish Academy. ': 



To this Resolution Prof. O'Looney has not replied. 



Messrs. Browne & Nolan hare not sent the sheets as directed by 

 the Committee, who are thus prevented from furnishing particulars to 

 Prof. O'Looney of the course they deem suitable in order to carry on 

 the work. Annexed is a copy of a letter received from the printers, 

 from which the Committee conclude that Messrs. Browne & Nolan 

 decline to comply with the request of the Committee, until authorised 

 by Dr. Sullivan and Prof. O'Looney : — 



' * "Wholesale Paper "Waeehoitse, 

 " 24, Nassaf-steeet, 

 "DuBLnf, 8th March, 1879. 



" SiE, — In reply to your favour of the 3rd instant, we regret our 

 inability to give any further information than that contained in our 

 letter of 19th November, 1877, the printing work to which you refer 

 being now in the same state as then. Dr. W. K. Sullivan and Pro- 

 fessor O'Looney have not replied to our letters on the subject. 



" Yours truly, 



(Signed) " Bkowne & Nolan, 



"Per P. M. 



\ " Eobeet AiKiNsoif, Esq." 



Council has taken steps to define the Academy's legal position 

 with Messrs. Browne & Nolan, by addressing the following letter to 

 them : — 



April 7, 1879. 



" SiK, 



"I am directed by the Council of the Royal Irish Academy 

 to request that you deliver, without delay, at the Academy House, 

 the amount of printed matter now in your hands, and prepared by 

 you in pursuance of the contract contained in the letter of the 

 Secretary of MSS. Committee to you, dated the 2nd day of December,. 

 1873; and at the same time furnish your account for the work 

 in pursuance of such contract hitherto done by you ; the balance on 

 which, together with expense of carriage, will be at once discharged 

 by the Academy. 



"If you decline this request, the Council would desire a state- 

 ment from you, why, having received so large a payment from the- 



