Minutes of the Academy. 
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Committee, to be charged with the supervision of the Museum, the 
purchase of antiquities, and the administration of the Treasure Trove 
Tund. Under the superintendence of this Committee, the re-fitting 
and arrangement of the New Museum has been diligently proceeded 
with ; although, owing to the slow supply of some of the requisite 
furniture, the air of disorder, inseparable from such a change of re- 
positories, has not yet entirely disappeared from the outer room. 
In the inner (or strong) room all the gold objects, together with 
the Cross of Cong, the Ardagh Chalice, and other articles of the more 
precious class, have been deposited. The objects in gold have been 
arranged in the newly-erected iron presses, on a background of morone 
velvet. An external iron door has been constructed in the entrance, 
and the important object of placing this part of our collections in ab- 
solute security from fire and theft may now be regarded as accom- 
plished. 
It has been determined to place the Cross of Cong, the Ardagh 
Chalice, and some other objects of exceptional interest, on bust-column 
stands, with turntable tops, carrying cylindrical glass shades, for which 
directions have been given by the architect. In the case of the Ardagh 
Cup, an arrangement is contemplated by which the beautiful under- 
work of the foot will be reflected in a mirror within the glass 
shade. 
In the transfer of these and other parts of the collection, care has 
been taken to preserve the connexion of the numbers so as to secure 
the means of reference from the catalogue to each catalogued article in 
its new locality. 
The new furniture prepared and in course of construction for the 
long room consists of five tables with glass tops. Each table is 4 feet 
9 inches wide by 9 feet in length. Pour of them are fitted up with 
sets of drawers, in which the collections to be transferred from the 
glasscases of the old sets of tables may be temporarily deposited during 
the process of transfer. The fifth is fitted up with trays for the recep- 
tion of the Ogham paper casts lately added to the Museum. Two of 
the former class are still in the hands of the contractor ; and glass tops 
are, as yet, wanting to all. The operations incident to the erection of 
stoves in the reading-room and library necessitated the removal, for 
a time, of the Petrie collection from its place in the east gallery of the 
Eeading-room. It is now being re-deposited on glass shelving, and 
with new methods of attachment, admitting of the removal and re- 
placement of each object. 
Having reason to believe that the nature of the existing Treasure 
Trove Eegulations was not generally understood, and that the mass of 
the population were not aware that the Academy would purchase, at 
a fair price, any objects of antiquity which might be off'ered by the 
finder, we have prepared a statement, in the form of a placard, giving 
information on the subject, and indicating, by description as well as 
by woodcuts, the kinds of articles most likely to be found. By the 
permission of the Commissioners of Education, arrangements have been 
