Richard Dowden Papers Descriptive List

Scope and Content: 1. 11 Nov 1829 Notice of Meeting of Royal Cork Institution (RCI) Proprietors

2. nd Report of Dr. DB Bullen and others, concerning incorporation of the RCI

3. nd Plan for the Diffusion of Scientific and Useful Knowledge in the South of Ireland by establishing a 'Munster College' with the RCI.

4. nd Proposed Bye-Laws of the RCI and Munster College.

5. nd Address and Rules of the 'Working Men's Association for benefitting Politically, Socially and Morally The Useful Classes', London. (8pp)

Ref.

U140/J/03/37

Date:

27 June 1846-1848

Level : series Title:

Botanical Gardens

Extent: 1p Scope and Content: Printed notice of resolutions from meeting at the Royal Cork Institution for the purpose of establishing a Botanical Gardens in Cork, chaired by Mayor Andrew F. Roche Esq.

Ref.

U140/J/03/38

Date:

18 Mar 1839, 30 Jan 1844

Level : series Title:

John Walsh circulars

Extent: 2 items Scope and Content: 1. 18 Mar 1839 Printed open letter from John Walsh, Cork, to the Right Honorable Lord Brougham concerning the Theory of Partial Functions. (3pp) 2. 30 Jan 1844 Printed circular/notice by John Walsh, Cork, 'On Physical Astronomy' concerning geometrical theories, deriding Newtonian Physics. Accuses the (Royal) Cork Institution of limiting his access to the Library. (1 item)

Ref.

U140/J/03/39

Date:

[1800-1820]

Level : series Title:

Byron Lectures

Extent: 2pp Scope and Content:

Printed notice of course of 6 lectures by Mr.Byron, [poet Lord Byron d1824] late of the University of Oxford, on the principles of poetry, eloquence and general oratory at the 'Royal Cork Literary and Scientific Institution, Nelson Place. The lectures were also delivered in Brussels under patronage of Prince Frederick of the Netherlands. With list of nobility and eminent persons recently patronising the lectures in Edinburgh and in Dublin.

U140 Richard Dowden Papers Descriptive List