102 Royal Imh Academy, 



*'* It appears that, Sir Samuel Ferguson having expressed his 

 disapproval of the restricted issue of your Circular, and of the ap- 

 pearance of Academic sanction given to it by the use of the Academy's 

 address, you, on the 20th inst., without his knowledge or consent, 

 took the step of returning his Subscription by making a lodgment of 

 £5 as from ' The Todd Trustees' to the credit of his private banking 

 account. Sir Samuel Ferguson decliues to allow himself to be so de- 

 prived of his status as a Subscriber, and we, on his behalf, require 

 that he shall receive due notice of any further proceedings, whether 

 by Public Meeting or otherwise, which may be taken in relation to the 

 Fund. "We hold Sir Samuel Ferguson's draft for the amount so lodged, 

 which we are prepared to pay over to the credit of the Fund as soon 

 as a new Joint-treasurer shall be appointed in the room of Mr. 

 Hardinge. 



"It appears that, with the sanction of the Council of the Eoyal 

 Irish Academy, a Committee, of which you were a Member, sat at 

 the Eoyal Irish Academy House, in and after November, 1869, and 

 received Subscriptions there, for the purpose of carrying out the above 

 Eesolution. The form of Memorial resolved on is stated in the Circular 

 issued by that Committee to ' have the fullest approval of the immediate 

 relatives of the late Dr. Todd,' — an approval which does not appear 

 to have been procured for the scheme you propose to substitute. It 

 has, therefore, been thought proper that copies of this letter should be 

 sent to the Yery Eev. Dean Eeeves and J. E. Garstin, Esq., J.P., the 

 surviving Secretaries of that Committee ; to your surviving Co-Trustee, 

 the Eev. Maxwell Close ; to the personal representative of the late 

 Mr. Hardinge, one of the Trustees on whose behalf you purported to 

 make the re-payment of Sir Samuel Ferguson's Subscription ; to the 

 Eight Eev. the Bishop of Limerick, who, you state, suggested the 

 proposed change in the application of the Funds; and to Charles 

 Todd, LL.D., Q.C. — which will account to you for this being a printed 

 communication. 



""We are. Sir, 



' ' Your obedient Servants, 



" Maxwell & "VYeldon. 

 "J. T. Gilbert, Esq., 

 " rUla JSfova, 



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