Minutes of Proceedings. 391 



Council, 5th December, 1898. 

 Eead the follomng letter : — 



1^19817.] Chiep Seceetaet's Oppice, 



Dublin Castle, Novemler 2Wi, 1898. 



SlE, 



I am directed by tlie Lord Lieutenant to acknowledge the receipt 

 of your letter of the 22nd instant on the subject of certain gold 

 ornaments found in Ireland and purchased by the British Museum, and 

 I am to state for the information of the Council of the Royal Irish 

 Academy that the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasuiy have 

 intimated to His Excellency that they have appointed a Committee 

 composed as follows to inquire into the matter, and into the relations 

 between the British Museum and those of Edinburgh and Dublin : — 



Right Hon. Lord Rathmore (Chairman). 



Right Hon. John Morley, m.p. 



Right Hon. Sir John Lubbock, Bart., m.p. 



Sir John Evans, k.c.b. 



Right Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., m.p. 



Sir Thomas Esmonde, Bart., m.p. 



Mr. E. Gr. Harman, of the Treasury, has been appointed Secretary 

 to the Committee, who will probably meet in the first week in 

 December. 



I am. 



Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



J. B. DoTJGHEETr. 



The Seceetaet op CoiiNcrL, 



EoTAL Ikish Academy, 



19, Dawson-steeet. 



[A resolution was adopted that the Secretary of Council be directed 

 to write to the Lord Lieutenant to ask for a copy of the Treasury 

 Minute under which the Committee has been appointed.] 



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