. The Canadian journal ; a repertory of industry, science, and art ; and a record of the proceedings of the Canadian Institute. PROVINCIAL OBSERVATORY'. TORONTO. [1853 econoin)- in woikiug lliem; it will render a ver}- important service. The Royal Irish Academy of Science will show a very inter- esting collection of Irish Antiquities comprised in its Museum,— alonff with contributions for the purpose from the Board of Works, and from several private individuals. The collection of the Academy is \ei'y curious and itnportant: including many rare ecclesiological antiquities, and a large number of
. The Canadian journal ; a repertory of industry, science, and art ; and a record of the proceedings of the Canadian Institute. PROVINCIAL OBSERVATORY'. TORONTO. [1853 econoin)- in woikiug lliem; it will render a ver}- important service. The Royal Irish Academy of Science will show a very inter- esting collection of Irish Antiquities comprised in its Museum,— alonff with contributions for the purpose from the Board of Works, and from several private individuals. The collection of the Academy is \ei'y curious and itnportant: including many rare ecclesiological antiquities, and a large number of implements, tools, and arms, illustrative of the earl}- Art of the country. Tlie Ban- ner of the O'Donnell famii}-—the Psalms of St. Columb—and some other specimens—ai'e very celebrated in Irish history. The Museum of the Society is liberally opened to all applicants, and the specimens arc admii-ably arranged. To the present time, however, the institution has been without a Catalogue,—which will now be supplied by the Great Exhibition, and which will doubtless, soon give rise to a great extension of the Museum. Included in the Academy's Museum is a collection of Danish and Norwegian antiquities, presented by the King of Denmark and the Directors of the Museum of Copenhagen. The Irish Fisheries Commissioners contribute a large collection of apparatus and tackle used in the fisheries; including not only those at present employed, but also specimens of those which have been superseded or improved,—together with models of what are called River fixtures, and other means of capturing the finny tribe. In one of the galleries is a collection of 257 specimens of the Birds of Ireland, indigenous and immigratory, together with their eggs. These belong to a private gentleman of Dublin, named Waters, and ai e very well arranged in scientific order. There is a very curious collection of work, principally of the coarser descriptions, exhibited by the guardians of the twent_y- sev
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