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support the proposed Professorship, and it has been, in consequence, 

 proposed that, in lieu of such Professorship, and as a memorial to 

 Dr. Todd, and with a view to promote Celtic studies, a photographic 

 reproduction of the great Book of Lecan, an unique and most import- 

 ant unpublished collection of ancient Celtic literature belonging to the 

 E-oyal Irish Academy, should be published as a memorial volume, and 

 such last-mentioned proposal has been approved of by a large number 

 of influential Subscribers and by eminent Celtic scholars, as tending 

 pre-eminently to promote the knowledge of Celtic languages, which 

 cannot, it is believed-, be fully investigated so long as the said book 

 remains unpublished. 



7. The said William Henry Hardinge and I commenced the issue 

 of a circular, inviting Subscribers to inform us if they would approve 

 of such last-mentioned proposal, and caused same to be sent to several 

 of the Subscribers, and it would appear that such proposal is dis- 

 approved of by some Subscribers, and, amongst others, by Sir Samuel 

 Ferguson, Q.C. ; and believing it to be our duty to return the Sub- 

 scriptions of those who dissented from the said last-mentioned propo- 

 sition, I consequently lodged to the account of the said Sir Samuel 

 Ferguson with his bankers the sum of five pounds'; and to the 

 account of John Kells Ingram, Esq., the sum of ten pounds, as his 

 Subscription of five pounds, and a like amount as the Subscription of 

 his brother, believed now to be abroad, to said fund ; and I have 

 received from Messrs. Maxwell & Weldon, as solicitors for the said 

 Sir Samuel Ferguson, a printed protest, dated 24th of January, 1879, 

 and upon which I have endorsed my name at the time of swearing 

 this afiidavit, repudiating the return of his Subscription, and caution- 

 ing me against dealing with the fund for any but the original 

 purpose ; and as there would appear to be a difference of opinion 

 among influential Subscribers, I am desirous to be relieved of any 

 responsibility as to the application of the fund, and I have not made 

 any deduction from the amount of the Stock transferred or cash paid 

 into Court by me in respect of the three said Subscriptions so returned 

 by me. 



8. My Co-trustee, the said William Henry Hardinge, died on or 

 about the 21st day of January, 1879; consequently, I am now sole 

 Trustee, and there does not appear to be any person to appoint a 

 new trustee in his place, and for the protection of the fund, as well as 



