Bi-centenary, 1931.

  • Royal Dublin Society.
Date:
[1931]
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

[Dublin] : [Printed by Browne and Nolan Ltd.], [1931]

Physical description

ii-xxii, 80, xxiii-lxxii pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits ; 30 cm

Notes

At head of title: Royal Dublin Society
On cover: Bi-centenary souvenir, 1731-1931
"This souvenir booklet is intended to present an outline of some of the more outstanding activities of the Royal Dublin Society"--Foreword
Foreword signed W. H. Brayden
Pages ii-lxxii are advertising matter, including table of contents of the volume (p. xxiii) index to illustrations in the text (p. xxv) a sketch, "Trinity College, Dublin, and the foundation of the Royal Dublin Society" (p. xxx) and 6 plates (at p. xxx, xxxviii, xl, xliv, xlviii, lii

Contents

The Dublin horse show, Anonymous.--The scientific activities of the Royal Dublin Society 1731-1931, by Felix Hackett.--A life of two hundred years, by H. C. Hartnell.--History of the Irish Radium Institute 1914-1930, by John Joly.--The bull show and sale, by J. V. Coyle.-- What the society has done for art, by George Atkinson.--The spring show, by J. P. Drew.--The library, by R. L. Praeger.--Who's who in the Royal Dublin Society's military competitions, by Col. J. J. 0'Connell.--The Kerry cattle herd book, by Henry Kennedy.--Royal Dublin Society's headquarters, by Shán Ó. Cuív.--What the Royal Dublin Society has done for music, by Walter Starkie.--The Irish large white pig herd book, by Daniel Twomey.--The bloodstock sales, by Edward Bohane.--Works of art in society's headquarters.

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    History of Medicine
    AB.AS.472
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