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Further, the experiment shews that the common opinion 

 respecting the commencement of spring vegetation, — the rise 

 of the sap from the roots, through the trunk and branches 

 to the twigs, — is groundless ; since a scion of an early variety, 

 on a late stock, will be in leaf while the stock is torpid. ; 



Resolved, — (on the recommendation of Council,) " that 

 the sum of £200 be placed at the disposal of the Committee 

 of Antiquities, to employ such portion of it as they may deem 

 necessary in increasing the present collection of Irish Anti- 

 quities in the possession of the Academy." 



