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VI. That the Academy, for the foregoing reasons, protests against 

 the proposed change. 



Yll. That copies of the foregoing Eesolutions be forwarded to his 

 Excellency the Lord Lieutenant ; to the Lords of the Treasury ; to the 

 Committee of Council for Education ; to the Secretary of the Department 

 of Science and Art ; and to all the Irish Members of both Houses of 

 Parliament. 



It was also Eesolyed, — That fall authority be delegated to the 

 Council to take such steps as they may consider expedient to protect 

 the interests and independence of the Academy. 



The Academy then adjourned. 



MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1863. 



The Veet Eev. Chaeles Geaves, D. D., President, in the Chair. 



The President handed in the following letters, and explained, — that on 

 the very same day on which the Academy met, and passed the resolu- 

 tions just read by the Secretary (see " Proceedings," p. 396), the letter 

 addressed to him from the Chief Secretary's office was forwarded to 

 him ; but he did not receive it until he went home after the meeting. 

 In it was enclosed the letter from the Lords of the Treasury, explaining 

 that the idea of affiliating the Academy to the Eoyal Dublin Society had 

 been given up. Having received that assurance, the President at once 

 suspended all further proceedings. It was," he said, "a result ex- 

 tremely gratifying to the Academy, as we all felt that without the inde- 

 pendence which we asked in the resolutions, it would be impossible for 

 us to maintain that dignity which we have always maintained in the 

 face of the country and of the scientific world" : — 



Dublin Castle, 6th July, 1863. 



" SiE, — Eef erring to your letter of the 27th ultimo, relative to the 

 proposed amalgamation of the Eoyal Irish Academy with the Eoyal 

 Dublin Society, I am directed by the Lord Lieutenant to state, that it 

 afibrds His Excellency much pleasure to transmit to you, for the infor- 

 mation of the Members of the Academy, a copj^ of a letter received from 

 the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, from which it will be seen that 

 it is not now intended to carry into effect that portion of the Eeport of 

 the Commissioners which adverts to the connexion of the Eoyal Irish 

 Academy with the Eoyal Dublin Society. 



" I am sir, your obedient servant, 



''Thomas Laecom. 



" To the President of the Royal Irish Academy.''^ 

 E. I. A. PEOC. — VOL. VIII. 



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