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copy of which I have been directed to send you for the infor- 

 mation of the Council of the E,oyal Dublin Society, as soon as I 

 shall be in possession of an acknowledgment of its receipt by the 

 Government department to which it has been addressed. 



" I am, my dear Sir, 



''Faithfully yours, 



"J. K. liS'GRAM, 



" Secretary of Council. 

 "Tb G. J. Stoket, Esa., 

 " Secretary of the Royal Dublin Society. 



"No. 2. 



' ' Royal Irish Academy House, 

 ''Dublin, May 12, 1877. 



" GENTLEMElSr, 



" I am directed by the Council of the Royal Irish Academy to 

 ask your attention to one of the heads of agreement between the 

 Government and the Royal Dublin Society, embodied in the 

 ' Memorandum of Provisions ' agreed to on the 5th of March 

 last. 



" The Royal Dublin Society was established by Charter in 

 1750, under the name of the ' Dublin Society for promoting 

 Husbandry and other Dseful Arts in Ireland.' 



" A Supplemental Charter was granted in 1866. Nothing is 

 enacted in it respecting a change of the objects of the Society, 

 which is described as 'the Dublin Society,' better known as the 

 Royal Dublin Society, for the promotion of Husbandry and 

 other useful Arts and Sciences in Ireland. 



" The intention was plainly not to alter the sphere of labour 

 which it had always honourably filled : namely, that of advanc- 

 ing the agricultural and industrial interests of the country ; and 

 the phrase ' Useful Arts and Sciences ' shows that it was meant 



