240 Royal Irish Academy. 



Sir E. '' Sir R. Geiitith. 



Griffith 



" ' Q. This Society is rather more a Society for applying the 



Sciences practically to the Arts than following out Abstract 



Science ? 



" 'Yes, for Practical Science.'—^?;. 2074. 



Dr. Harty. " William Hartt, M.D. 



'' ' The Dublin Society is not a Scientific body ; it never was 

 intended to be a Scientific body ; and if it be made a pure 

 Scientific body it will be diverted from its appropriate purpose. 

 I do not mean to say they may not cultivate Science as they 

 do to a certain extent ; but it never was founded for Scien- 

 tific purposes. 



" ' I have taken an extract from a Eeport of the Dublin 

 Society made to the Government in the year 1820, in confir- 

 mation of my views and feelings. I will read the extract : — 



'' ' The objects proposed by the Society are practical, and do 

 not interfere with any other of the institutions in this country, 

 which are either purely Scientific and Literary, or else adapted 

 to Professional Education.'— j^y. 2389, 2390. 



" ' The Dublin Society is not a learned Society, properly 

 speaking ; it is a purely practical Society, and it is not by what 

 it would publish or has ever published that its utility is shown, 

 but in the public benefits derived from its several departments. 

 . . . The Dublin Society is only Scientific so far (and so far you 

 may call it learned) as it employs Professors to give general 

 information to the community on the elementary parts of certain 

 Sciences. 



" 'Its object is not so much to enlarge the field of Science, as 

 to make Science available for practical purposes.' — JEv. 2405- 

 6-7. 



" ' It is not a body for the promotion of Science. 



" ' It is not, properly speaking, a Scientific body. It does 

 not appoint its Professors with a view to carry Science to per- 

 fection ; it is with a view to apply the existing mass of 

 knowledge to practical purposes of life. Its real and proper 



