Minutes of Proceedings. 235 



applied Sciences, and earnestly desirous that it should succeed 

 in their advancement. 



"11. The Academy was not in privity with, and had no 1877. First 

 opportunity of intervening in, any of the Proceedings of the D^^g^t ^^ 

 Society until after the latter had resigned its functions in Art Society's 

 and Botany to the Science and Art Department, when, in 1877, P^c^^edings. 

 as will be in the recollection of the members, a correspondence 

 took place between Mr. Stoney as Secretary of the Royal Dublin By proposal 

 Society, and Dr. Ingram as Secretary to the Council of the ^'^^^ ^^ a'^new 

 Academy, in reference to a proposal made on the part of the exclusively 

 Society for the partial amalgamation of the Academy and the amalo-aniated 

 Society for Scientific purposes, as if of bodies recognized as Society. 

 having identical Scientific functions. The Council of the Aca- 

 demy declining to entertain this proposal, the correspondence Declined by 

 (so far as concerned the suggested amalgamation) was closed by ^^^° Academy. 

 a letter from Dr. Stoney of the 10th May in that year. It 

 appeared, however, to the Council that the claims made by 

 the Society in respect of Scientific research could not be 

 allowed to remain unnoticed ; and accordingly the letter of 

 the 23rd May, 1877 (Appendix 1), was written to Mr. Stoney : Appendix. 

 a letter of the preceding day {ibid. 2) having been sent to the 

 Secretaries of Her Majesty's Treasury. To the former of these 

 communications an answer was received from Mr. Stoney dated 

 the 10th July, 1877, transmitting a ' Statement of Facts by the 

 Delegates of the Royal Dublin Society ' (ibid. 3). 



"12. The Document last mentioned purports to set forth the Scientific 



claims of the Society to the cultivation of pure and applied ?,^^™f °^ , 



. . ... Society put 



Science, as distinguished from their practical application to use- forward on 



f ul purposes. These claims are founded by the Delegates : 1 , on occasion, 

 ■^ _ ^ _ JO? grounded m : 



prescriptive usage ; 2, on the authority of Parliament ; and 3, on 



the Supplemental Charter {supra, 4), and Report of Select Com- 

 mittee {supra, 3). 



"In support of the first of these no proof is offered, save in Prescriptive 

 respect of the Papers, &c., read and published under the circum- ^'^^se- 

 stances above stated {supra, 3, 5). 



"For the second ground, 'a series of Acts of Parliament,' Acts of Parlin 

 among which 25 Geo. III. (1), c. 27 is specially cited, are re- "^ 

 ferred to as ' recognizing the right of the Society to cultivate 



