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[2.] 



'' Teeastjet Chambers, 

 ''nth February, 1877. 



''SlE, 



"I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's 

 Treasury to transmit to you herewith copy of a letter of the 8th inst. 

 from the Science and Art Department, and of the enclosure therein, 

 on tha subject of the re-transfer to your Department of the vote for 

 the Eoyal Irish Academy; and I am to state, that if the proposal 

 now made meets with the approval of His Grace the Lord Lieutenant, 

 My Lords should not feel called upon to make any objection to it. 



"J. am, Sir, 



" Tour obedient Servant, 

 " The Eight Hoif. " ^Y. H. Smith. 



" Sm M. Hicks Beach, Bart., M. P." 



[3.] 



"Dublin Castle, 

 ''2Qth Felruary, 1877. ' 



'' SlE, 



* ' Adverting to former correspondence relative to the transfer of 

 the antiquarian collections commonly known as the Museum of the 

 Eoyal Irish Academy, ta the National Science and Art Museum, 

 which it is proposed to establish in Dublin ; and also to the transfer of 

 the charge of the vote for the Eoyal Irish Academy to the Science 

 and Art Department, I am directed by the Lord Lieutenant to ac- 

 quaint you, for the information of the Eoyal Irish Academy, that His 

 Grace has been in communication with the Lords Commissioners of 

 Her Majesty's Treasury and the Science and Art Department on tlie 

 subject, with the view of devising such modifications in detail of the 

 original scheme proposed in Lord Sandon's communication of the 

 9th Pebruary, 1876, directed to the President of the Academy, as, 

 while not interfering with the establishment in Dublin of a compre- 

 hensive National Museum of Science and Art, would at the same time 

 meet the objections entertained by the Members of the Eoyal Irish 

 Academy to the original scheme, and also to the transfer of the 



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