XXVI 
Appendix. 
Answee of Eael Geanville. 
''EoEEiGN- Oeeice, JVovemher 24^A, 1870. 
" SiE — I am directed by Earl Granville to acknowledge the 
receipt of the IVIeraorial of the Eoyal Irish Academy of the 14th 
instant, requesting that Her Majesty's Government will use their 
influence, in order to induce the belligerent Powers to take every 
possible precaution to secure from the destruction with which they 
are threatened the scientific, literary, and artistic collections now 
existing in Paris ; and I am to inform you in reply, that Lord Gran- 
ville has caused a copy of your Memorial to be transmitted to Her 
Majesty's Ambassador at Berlin for communication to the Prussian 
Government. 
''lam, Sir, 
' ' Your most obedient 
''Humble Servant, 
" E. Hammon-d. 
'' The President of the Royal Irish Academy ^ 
" 19, Bawson-street, Dublin.''^ 
Copy of Note of the Secretary of the Royal Irish Academy^ addressed, 
with a copy of the above Memorial^ to different Learned Societies and 
Universities of Europe. 
'' EoTAL Ieish Academy, Dublust, 
''16 November, 1870. 
" SiE — I am directed by the Eoyal Irish Academy to forward to 
you the enclosed copy of a Memorial to Her [Britannic] Majesty's 
Government, and to solicit the co-operation of your Society [University] 
in the object of it. 
' ' Yours faithfully, 
"W. K. Sullivan-, 
" Secretary of the Academy.^'' 
Answees eeceived feom Untveesities. 
University of Oxford, 
" Christ Church, Oxford, November 22nd, 1870. 
' ' SiE — I have taken the earliest opportunity of laying your letter, 
with its enclosure, before the Council of the University. 
" I am directed to say that we sympathise most heartily in the 
anxious wish of the Boyal Irish Academy that the costly "Works of Art 
and the Literary and Scientific Collections of Paris, should be pro- 
tected from danger in the terrible event of a bombardment. 
