392 Royal Irish Academy. 



Council, Saturday, 10th December, 1898. 

 [Eead letter from the Under Secretary enclosing copy of the- 

 Treasury Minute of 24tli October, 1898, appointing Committee.] 



The Treasury Minute is given in the Report of the Treasury^ 

 Committee, page iii. 



[Eead the following telegi'am from Lord Eathmore] : — 



O.H.M.S. Whitehail. 



To Sec^etaet Eotax Ieish Academy, 



19, Dawson-steeet. 



Lord Eathmore desires me to inform you that Committee on 

 Eelations between British Museum and Scotch and Irish Museum will 

 meet at House of Lords, Tuesday next, at two o'clock, and to invite 

 Eoyal Irish Academy to send representative as witness at that meeting.. 



Hewbt, Treasuiy. 



(CoLLEGE-GrEEEN, DtJBLIN, DeC. 8th, '98.) 



" The communications were considered, and it was resolved that 

 the Secretary of Council be authorised to act as representative of the 

 Eoyal Irish Academy at the House of Lords on the Committee, on. 

 Tuesday next, December 13th, 1898." 



Council, 16th January, 1899. 



''The Secretary of Council reported that during the vacation he 

 attended, as desired, before the Committee appointed by the Treasury 

 to inquire into the matter of the Gold ornaments found in Ireland 

 and recently purchased by the British Museum, and into the relations 

 between the British Museum and those of Edinburgh and Dublin. The 

 Committee held their inquiry at the House of Lords. The Secretary 

 stated that he laid before the Committee the claims of the Eoyal Irish 

 Academy relative to the Gold ornaments found recently in the Korth 

 of Ireland and bought by the British Museum from Mr. Day." 



[Note. — Tlie Report of the Treasury Committee was ordered hy 

 the House of Commons to le printed. May 1st, 1899.] 



