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Royal Irish Academy. 



Hecommenda- 

 tions of 

 Committee 

 confined to J 

 Practical 

 Science. 



As further 

 appearing by 

 the allocation 

 of the Society' I 

 duties. 



Being the 

 same view 



"15. The recommendations of the Committee -were embodied 

 in thirteen resolutions, in two only of Tvhich (the 4th and 10th) 

 do the -n-ords ' Science ' and ' Scientific ' occur. These resolu- 

 tions are as follows : — 



" (4). Eesolted : — ' That the Dublin Society should be con- 

 sidered the great central Association for the diffusion through- 

 out Ireland of a knowledge of Practical Science, and of all 

 improvements in Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Arts, and 

 that it should place itself it communication with all local 

 Societies founded with a view to similar objects, affording them 

 assistance, encouragement, and information, and receiving from 

 them in return periodical Reports of their proceedings.' 



"(10). Eesolted: — 'That each Committee should periodi- 

 cally publish Reports of its proceedings, and that the Council 

 should, by selection from the Papers, read at the Evening 

 Scientific Meetings, or by the compilation of such other interest- 

 ing and useful information as they may think it desirable to 

 communicate to the public, cause to be printed from time to 

 time publications which should be accessible to the public by 

 purchase.' 



" It is too plain to permit a doubt that these two resolutions 

 are intimately connected with one another, and that the word 

 ' Scientific ' in the 10th is to be read as in pari materia with the 

 words 'Practical Science' in the 4th; while the meaning and 

 object of both resolutions are fully and clearly explained in the 

 passage already cited from the body of the Report. 



"16. A further confirmation of this view is to be found in the 

 3rd and 6th resolutions. By the former it was recommended 

 that the Committees of the Society should be eight in number, 

 severally devoted to — 1. Fine Arts; 2. iSTatural Philosophy; 

 3. Chemistry ; 4. Mineralogy (and the application of the last 

 three subjects to the useful xlrts) ; 5. Botany and JSTatiu-al 

 History; 6. Agriculture; 7. Statistics; and 8. Accounts and 

 Domestic arrangements. And the 6th resolution was : — ' That 

 the Botanic Garden should be made as much as possible a school 

 for young gardeners seeking instruction in horticulture.' 



"17. From the passages thus given from their Report, it is 

 abundantly clear that the view adopted by the Select Committee 



