PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. 



1844. No. 45. 



May 13. 

 SIR Wm. R.HAMILTON, LL. D., President, in the Chair. 



Wm. H. Harvey, M. D., was elected a Member of the 

 Academy. 



Read, — A recommendation of Council to the Academy, 

 to open a subscription list for the fund required to complete 

 the sum necessary for the purchase of Hodges and Smith's 

 Irish MSS., and that the Academy be recommended to head 

 the list by a subscription of £100. 



Read, — A letter from Lord Adare to Mr. Petrie, regard- 

 ing a Grant from Government to the Academy, for the said 

 purchase ; and also a letter from Sir Robert Peel to Lord 

 Adare, in which he stated that he was " willing to recom- 

 mend to the Treasury to grant £600 for the purchase of the 

 MSS.," " on the condition that the whole collection shall be 

 purchased, and that the sum required to complete the pur- 

 chase of the whole shall be raised from other sources." 



Resolved, on the recommendation of Council, — That 

 the Academy do open a Subscription list for the fund above 

 mentioned, and that it do head the list by a donation of 

 £100. 



Wm. R. Wilde, Esq., read a paper on the Pharos of 

 Corunna. 



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