Abolition of Office of Director of Museum of Irish Industry: report of the Commission on the College of Science, Dublin

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COLLEGE OF SCIENCE (DUBLIN), &c.


RETURN to an Order of the Honourable the House of Commons,


dated 26 March 1867 ;—yor,


COPIES " of the Report of the Commission on the College of Science,
Dublin, and of the Objections made to any of the Recommendations by
Members of the Commission


" Of Minute of the Committee of the Privy Council for Education, directing
the Abolition of the Office of Director of the Museum of Irish Industry


" And, of all Correspondence that has taken place with different Depart¬
ments of the Government with reference to the Abolition of that Office,
and to the new Arrangements proposed to be adopted for the Government of
the Museum."


Mr. B. Cole to Sir Thomas Larcom.


South Kensington Museum,
Sir, 11 October 1866.


I AM directed by the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education to
transmit to you, for the information of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the
accompanying Report on the proposed College of Science, and to request to be
favoured with any observations which his Excellency may desire to make on
the subject.


I am, &c.


Sir Thomas Larcom, r.e., k.c.b., (signed) Henry Cole.


See. &c., Dublin Castle.


REPORT on the College of Science for Ireland.


To the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council on Education.


My Lords,


In accordance with the request contained in the letter of the Lord President,
dated the l7th February 1866, and with your Lordships' Minute of the 10th
March, we, the Commissioners thereby appointed, have carefully considered the
subject of the new College of Science referred to us, and have now the honour
to submit the following Report:


2. From the General Minute on Scientific Institutions and Instruction in
Dublin, that of the 21st September 1865, it appears that your Lordships con¬
sider that, for the various reasons therein given, "the Museum of Irish In¬
dustry " now existing in Dublin " should," on its re-organisation as contem¬
plated by the Minute, ''' have a wider scope given to it than that of a School of
Mines ; that it should become a College for affording a complete and thorough
course of instruction in those branches of science which are more immediately
connected with and applied to all descriptions of industry, including agri¬
culture, mining, and manufactures ; that it should in this way supplement the
elementary scientific instruction already provided for by the Science Schools of
the Department, and that it should assist in the training of teachers for these
schools."


3. At the same time Minute of 10th March 1866 states that "as the
sphere of action sketched out in this (the preceding) Minute will be somewhat
new and beyond the limits hitherto placed on the action of the Science and Art
Department in respect of the encouragement of science, my Lords have appointed


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