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Page 231 - Speckled Book," otherwise styled, "The Great Book of Dun Doighre": a Collection of Pieces in Irish and Latin, transcribed towards the close of the Fourteenth Century. "The oldest and best Irish MS. relating to Church History now preserved
Page cxxxi - I am directed by the lords commissioners of Her Majesty's treasury to transmit to you, for the information of Earl -Russell, the inclosed copies of a report which they have received from the commissioners of customs, and of their lordships' minute thereon, I am, &c., (Signed) F.
Page cxx - He published, not long before his death, a work on the Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland to the close of the twelfth century...
Page 231 - Irish language, and one of the chief surviving native literary monuments — not ecclesiastical — of ancient Ireland; now for the first time published, from the original in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, with account of the Manuscript, description of its contents, index, and facsimiles in colours. In folio, on toned paper, half-calf. £3, 3*.
Page cxxxii - I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education to request that you will be good enough to furnish me with twenty copies of your pamphlet " On the Opportunities of Advancing Science enjoyed by the Mercantile Marine," to send to all the Navigation Schools under this Department.
Page 240 - I'have been unable to ascertain the time occupied in a single act of self-division, but supposing it to be completed in twenty-four hours, we should have, as the progeny of a single frustule, the amazing number of one thousand millions in a single month ; a circumstance which will in some degree explain the sudden or at least rapid appearance of vast numbers of these organisms in localities where they were but a short time previously either unrecognised or only sparingly diffused.
Page 458 - Quay, namely, 10 and 10-15 and xra grains of albuminoid ammonia from one gallon of each water, respectively, is more than 100 times greater than the Liffey maximum. Messrs. Wanklyn and Chapman conclude from a wide induction of experiments that " the disintegrating animal refuse in the river [Thames] would be pretty fairly measured by ten times the albuminoid ammonia which it yields.
Page 458 - Poolbeg-street, was 105 grains to the gallon, that is exactly 600 times greater than the river maximum. The least impure of the twenty-nine street waters yielded nearly three times more albuminoid ammonia than the most impure sample of the...
Page 231 - THE accurate study aud critical investigation of the ancient literary and historic monuments of Ireland have hitherto been impeded by the absence of fac-similes of the oldest and most important Irish Manuscripts. With a view of supplying this acknowledged want, and of placing beyond risk of destruction the contents of Manuscripts, the Academy has undertaken the publication of carefully collated lithographic copies of the oldest Irish texts still extant. These can be obtained by subscribers only....
Page 468 - There all good fruits on the spontaneous soil Fed by the rain of Zeus for ever grow; Unsown, untended, corn and wine and oil Spring to their hand; but they no councils know Nor justice, but for ever lawless go. Housed in the hills they neither buy nor sell, No kindly offices demand or show; Each in the hollow cave where he doth dwell Gives law to wife and children, as he thinketh well.