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	Royal Dublin Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Royal Dublin Society (RDS) was founded in 1731 by members of the Dublin Philosophical Society in their Trinity College Dublin rooms as the Dublin Society.
		The society acquired its current premises at Ballsbridge in 1879, and since then has increased from the original fifteen to forty acres (60,000 to 160,000 m²).
		The Royal prefix was adopted in 1820 when George IV became patron of the Society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Dublin_Society (235 words)

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		She aided the Royal Horticultural Society in forming a collection of insect farm pests and was awarded the Flora medal.
		Royal Society and from then on he frequently sent the Society and his patron, English Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed, ideas for simple but revealing experiments...
		He was a founder of the Royal Society and was physician general to the army of Ireland in 1652.
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/65search?query=Royal+Society (261 words)

	Royal Dublin Society - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Royal Dublin Society
		The society has helped to establish many national institutions including the National Library, the National Gallery, the National Botanical Gardens, and the Veterinary College which is now part of University College, Dublin.
		By the end of the 18th century the society appointed professors in the sciences who were required to carry out research and give public lectures on scientific advancements.
		Before a living could be made from science the RDS funded the research efforts of leading Irish scientists such as the chemists Richard Kirwan, Robert Kane, and William Higgins, and the geologist Richard Griffith.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Royal+Dublin+Society (291 words)

	1731 - Dublin - Royal Dublin Society - History of Scholarly Societies
		According to its website, the Society was founded on 1731, June 25 as the Dublin Society for improving Husbandry, Manufactures and other Useful Arts.
		The Society's emphasis was on agriculture and industry.
		Since the Royal designation was not granted the Society until 1820, it seems likely that the title of this journal prior to 1820 was Proceedings of the Dublin Society.
	www.scholarly-societies.org /history/1731ds.html (984 words)

	STAMPA 2001 - The Irish National Stamp Exhibition - Venue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Dublin is special, a place where tradition and cultural heritage have merged seamlessly over the centuries to create an atmosphere simply unique to Dublin.
		Dublin is located at the mouth of the Liffey estuary and it is up this river the first developers sailed in the Ninth Century.
		The Royal Dublin Society (RDS) was founded over 250 years ago to promote the development of Industry, Arts, Science and Agriculture in Ireland.
	home.att.net /~aranman/Venue2001.html (242 words)

	Leinster House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It served as the headquarters of the Royal Dublin Society until 1922.
		In 1924, due to financial constraints, plans to turn the Royal Hospital into a parliament house were abandoned; Leinster House instead was bought, pending the provision of a proper parliament house at some stage in the future.
		The entire Royal College of Science, which by then had been merged with University College Dublin, was subsequently taken over in 1990 and turned into a state of the art Government Buildings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leinster_House (966 words)

	Science and Empire in Victorian Ireland: The Evidence of British Association Meetings
		The Royal Dublin Society influence was visibly declining.
		The Royal Dublin Society was the key to this possibility, and it was in decline.
		The Royal Dublin Society participation was down to 2: EW Davy, who now styles himself MD, FRS, MRIA, Professor of Chemistry to the Royal Dublin Society, and W K Sullivan, curator of the Museum of Irish Industry (this was absorbed into the National Museum circa 1980).
	www.victorianweb.org /history/ireland/johnston1.html (3418 words)

	Adventures in CyberSound: Stoney, George Johnstone
		The fine portrait of Stoney which hangs in the stately rooms of the Royal Dublin Society at Leinster House represents an honorary officer whose work should be remembered in connection with the most momentous events in the history of the Society.
		Subsequently further notes were brought before the Society; and finally, in 1897, in the ' Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society,' Dr. Stoney gave a full account of a theory which accounts for many observed facts regarding the atmospheres of heavenly bodies, e.g.
		He persuaded the Royal Dublin Society to add to its many other functions that of affording an opportunity for hearing good chamber-music, and of endeavouring to educate the popular taste for such in Dublin in much the same way that the Monday Popular Concerts at the Albert Hall had done in London.
	www.acmi.net.au /AIC/STONEY_BIO_2.html (1853 words)

	Dáil Éireann - Volume 9 - 09 December, 1924 - COMMITTEE ON FINANCE—SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES. - VOTE ...
		It is fair to the Society especially in view of the fact that they have determined to concentrate all their branches at Ballsbridge, and consequently it is probable that they will not have to build there as much as they would have had if they had chosen a site in town.
		Then the Society, if we had been dealing with the matter item by item, or going before some sort of arbitrator in the matter, would have been certainly entitled to something for the occupation of portion of its premises during the last couple of years.
		The Society, in a claim, put in a large sum, a sum which I think could be shown not to be accurate, but on the other hand, if one were to say £2,000 per annum, it is a figure which would not be widely wrong.
	www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie /D/0009/D.0009.192412090021.html (1313 words)

	Irish guide Ireland tourist information Dublin
		Dublin Castle is still used for elections and official state events often involving Heads of State, including the inaugurations of the Presidents of Ireland.
		Dublin Zoo is set in 30 acres of grounds in Phoenix Park with over 700 animals and tropical birds.
		The garden of remembrance was established in 1966 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising.
	www.tourist-information-dublin.co.uk (537 words)

	Irish National Botanic Gardens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Irish National Botanic Gardens are located in Glasnevin, 5 km north-west of Dublin city centre, Ireland.
		It was founded in 1795 by the Royal Dublin Society and has grown to hold 20,000 living plants and many millions of dried plant specimens, contained in gardens that include architecturally notable greenhouses.
		As well as being a tourist destination and an amenity for nearby residents, it also serves as a centre for horticultural research and training.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irish_National_Botanic_Gardens (147 words)

	National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin
		The botanic gardens were established in 1795 under the auspices of the Dublin Society, later the Royal Dublin Society, at the behest of the Irish Parliament to 'promote a scientific knowledge in the various branches of agriculture'.
		The original botanic gardens were laid out by their first director, Dr Walter Wade, Professor of Botany to the Dublin Society, with the help of the first superintendent, John Underwood.
		It was raised from a cutting taken from a rose at Jenkinstown House in County Kilkenny which, according to tradition, was the rose that inspired Thomas Moore to write his famous ballad.
	www.irelandseye.com /aarticles/travel/attractions/gardens/glasnevn.shtm (882 words)

	Attractions in Dublin
		Dublin Castle is located in the centre of historic Dublin.
		Dublin Zoo is set in a stunning landscape of 66 acres and is one of the top tourist attractions in Ireland.
		Also known as Dublin's playground, the Phoenix Park opened in 1747, and it is home to the Irish President and the U.S. ambassador to Ireland, not to...
	www.centralr.com /attraction.asp?ctid=77 (513 words)

	National Museum of Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It is the first branch of the National Museum of Ireland to be located outside Dublin and is the first purpose-built museum to be constructed since the development of the Kildare Street building in the 1880’s.
		The Dublin Museum of Science and Art was renamed The National Museum of Ireland in the early twentieth century.
		This project, the first branch of the National Museum of Ireland outside Dublin, and the only purpose-built museum erected in Ireland during the 20th century, was funded by the European Union together with State and local authority support, and opened in September 2001.
	www.museum.ie /history.asp?site_id=0 (1106 words)

	JOHN HENRY FOLEY - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN HENRY FOLEY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		At thirteen he began to study drawing and modelling at the schools of the Royal Dublin Society, where he took several first-class prizes.
		In 1835 he was admitted a student in the schools of the Royal Academy, London.
		He left his models to the Royal Dublin Society, his early school, and a great part of his property to the Artists Benevolent Fund.
	25.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FO/FOLEY_JOHN_HENRY.htm (355 words)

	The Royal Dublin Society, 1815-45 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The period 1815-45 was seminal in the evolution of the Society into a philanthropic institution wholly independent of government.
		This book examines the history of the Royal Dublin Society at a time when that body was coming to terms with changes in its relationship with the state.
		An 18th-century foundation, the Society had both an educational and an economic development role in Ireland and founded a national museum, botanic gardens, library, and art school.
	www.four-courts-press.ie /cgi/bookshow.cgi?file=rds.xml (135 words)

	Stoneyinfo
		In a paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy in 1858 he showed that Boyle's Law is contrary to the view that the particles of a gas are at rest or that it can be a continuous homogeneous substance.
		Stoney was elected to the Royal Society in 1861, was Vice-President 1898-99 and served on Council 1898-1900.
		He was a Visitor to the Royal Observatory at Greenwich and to the Royal Institution, a Foreign Member of the U.S. Academy of Science and of the Philosophical Society of America and a corresponding member of Sci.
	www.iscan.ie /spotlight/stoneyinfo.htm (1930 words)

	Tripartite Colorectal Meeting
		Dublin is the capital city of the Republic of Ireland.
		Dublin is home to the National Art Gallery and Trinity College, which houses the famous Book of Kells.
		Many of Dublin's heroes and heroines are commemorated around the city with sculptures and plaques.
	www.tripartite.org.uk (355 words)

	GLASRA National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin
		The Dublin Society was established to promote interest in all aspects of “the useful arts and science’s” (Berry 1915).
		.” In March 1796, the Society had asked Wade to prepare a catalogue of this herbarium; he was appointed the Dublin Society’s Professor and lecturer in botany in April 1796, with care of the herbarium and charge of the newly established botanic gardens at Glasnevin (White 1911, Berry 1915).
		In 1877, under an act of parliament, the Dublin Institutes of Science and Art were established as a government department, and the control of the Botanic Gardens passed from the Royal Dublin Society to the state.
	www.botanicgardens.ie /glasra/4_4.htm (2849 words)

	Seanad Éireann - Volume 2 - 19 March, 1924 - SEANAD IN COMMITTEE. - REPORT OF JOINT COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY ...
		I had hoped that the time was coming when we could have said good-bye to the Royal Dublin Society, and allowed them occupy their own premises, thanking them, as we certainly would do, for their hospitality during these very difficult years.
		In recommending the retention of the Royal Dublin Society's premises, we have done so entirely and exclusively on the basis of temporary occupation.
		It is unnecessary to say that even the continued temporary occupation of the building is a very serious matter for the Society as there is a danger that the Society may gradually disappear.
	www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie /S/0002/S.0002.192403190006.html (1022 words)

	Four Seasons Hotel Dublin
		Four Seasons Hotel Dublin is set within the Royal Dublin Society show grounds, offering technological advancement in a period-style ambience beautifully in tune with the historic neighbourhood, this hotel brings its renowned service to the charming and dynamic Irish capital.
		The six-storey red brick building is situated on the showgrounds of the historic Royal Dublin Society, in the quiet residential community of Ballsbridge.
		Four Seasons Hotel Dublin is situated on the showgrounds of the historic Royal Dublin Society, in the quiet residential community of Ballsbridge.
	dublin.gtahotels.com /hotels/four_seasons_hotel_dublin.htm (431 words)

	Dublin Bed and Breakfast Muckross House B&B
		We are very close to the Dublin city centre and also to the main transport routes in and out of the city.
		We are close to the Dublin city ferry terminal and the Connelly railway and Busaras bus station.
		This is a beautiful National asset, founded by the Royal Dublin Society in 1795 and an ideal way to spend a relaxing morning after a night in the city.
	www.muckrosshousedublin.com (317 words)

	Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University College, Dublin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The first veterinary school was established at Townsend Street in 1800 at a joint effort of the Royal Dublin Society (RDS) and Parliament.
		The Royal Dublin Society (RDS) pledged £1,000 in annual installments of £200 and a fund-raising target of £2,000 was exceeded in a matter of months.
		The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at University College Dublin (UCD) was established in 1946 and a School of Veterinary Medicine was established at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) in 1954.
	www.ucd.ie /vetmed/html/homepage/history.htm (550 words)

	Royal Dublin Society - Royal Dublin Society
		On 14 June 1731, 14 men met in Trinity College to form the Dublin Society (the “Royal” prefix was only added in 1821) to promote “husbandry, manufactures and other useful arts and sciences”;.
		For the next 200 years the society was to lead a rather nomadic existence until the penultimate move to Leinster House in 1814.
		When the Dublin Science and Art Museums Act of 1877 transferred control of the Library, Museum, Botanical Gardens and School of Art from the Society to the Government the compensation money was used to lease 15 acres in Ballsbridge.
	www.dublinks.com /index.cfm/loc/6-5/pt/0/spid/3CE2433F-7CB7-42F2-9E5B88FBF975100D.htm (257 words)

	Mathematics at TCD 1592-1992 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		An important element in the growth and promotion of the new approach to science was the formation of societies such as the Accademia dei Lincei, founded in Rome in 1601, or the Accademia del Cimento in Florence.
		In England the Royal Society of London was founded in 1660.
		The Philosophical Society is generally regarded as a forerunner of the Royal Dublin Society which was founded in 1731.
	www.maths.tcd.ie /~boutall/pub/official/400Hist/6.html (394 words)

	Royal Dublin Society: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Royal Dublin Society (RDS) was founded in 1731.
		Its aim was to promote the development of arts[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link], EHandler: no quick summary.
		Ballsbridge, dublin 4, dublin ireland, is named for the bridge spanning the river dodder on the south side of the city....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/royal_dublin_society.htm (274 words)

	Dublin 1853
		It was located in the center of Dublin (the capital of Ireland) on the lawn of the Royal Dublin Society.
		It lasted from the 12th of May to the 31st of October, Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince Consort and the Prince of Wales, then a lad of twelve, paid an official visit on the 29th of August.
		According to The Illustrated Dublin Exhibition Catalogue it was due to the merit of the builder that while overcoming many serious difficulties, the building was finished on time.
	www.lib.umd.edu /ARCH/honr219f/1853dubl.html (986 words)

	Sir William Rowan Hamilton - By John Francis Waller
		HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN, Royal Astronomer of Ireland, one of the most distinguished of living men of science, was born in Dublin on the 4th of August, 1805.
		When the Persian ambassador, Mirza Abou Hassan Khan, was in Dublin in 1819, young Hamilton addressed to him a congratulatory letter, of which the latter observed that he did not think there was a man in these countries who could write such a composition.
		In 1835, on the occasion of the meeting of the British Association in Dublin, he delivered, as its secretary, the annual address, and received the honour of knighthood; he has obtained the gold medals of the Royal Society, the Royal Irish Academy, and various other high institutions.
	www.maths.tcd.ie /pub/HistMath/People/Hamilton/ImpDict/ImpDict.html (913 words)

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