JSSISI: 1906 to 1912, Vol. XII, Parts LXXXVII to XCIIhttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/47702024-01-25T11:21:29Z2024-01-25T11:21:29ZSchool attendance in IrelandRyan, Frederick W.http://hdl.handle.net/2262/40182016-09-09T15:44:16Z1912-01-01T00:00:00ZSchool attendance in Ireland
Ryan, Frederick W.
In this paper your attention is drawn to the Irish Education
Act of 1892, upon the efficient working of which
must positively depend?as I hope to confirm by figures?the general success of Irish Elementary Education as a
whole; and as an indirect consequence the future character
and industrial development of the nation.
It is proposed, therefore, to examine the nature of
School Attendance required by law, and to note the lines
along which is carried the principle of compulsion embodied
in the Act in question.
Read April 26th, 1912
1912-01-01T00:00:00ZA memoir of the late John Kells Ingram, LL.D. - sometime President of the SocietyFalkiner, C. Littonhttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/39402016-09-09T15:36:18Z1912-01-01T00:00:00ZA memoir of the late John Kells Ingram, LL.D. - sometime President of the Society
Falkiner, C. Litton
In May last, at the first of our meetings which followed Dr.
Ingram's lamented death, the President paid a just tribute
to the memory of "one of our most distinguished members,"
and to "the great work which he did for Ireland in this
Society." But the observations then made were, necessarily,
confined to a brief and passing reference; for the occasion
was not appropriate to such a considered notice of Dr.
Ingram's career, and particularly of his connection with the
Statistical Society, as it has long been our custom to devote
to the commemoration of those who have been most
conspicuously associated with the Society's work. Since the
name of Dr. Ingram must always be held in reverent remembrance
amongst us, not merely as one of the most eminent in
the list of our Presidents, but as that of, perhaps, the most
distinguished authority on economics who has ever adorned
the roll of our Society, it has been thought desirable that
something in the nature of a formal memoir should be
prepared for our Journal. It is hardly needful to remark
that, in consenting to become the medium for such a tribute
as we desire to pay to Dr. Ingram's memory, I have no
pretension whatever to speak with authority on the value
or permanence of those weighty contributions to the history
of social and economic science by which his name
is likely to be most enduringly remembered. Were
the passing of such judgment the proper task of the
writer of this memorial notice, the Society must have looked
elsewhere for its author. But I conceive my function to be
the more limited one of combining with a brief record of the
main facts of Dr. Ingram's life, an account of his work in this
Society, and of the part he took in founding it, together
with a statement of the purpose and substance of those important contributions with which, from time to time, he
enriched our Journal. In endeavouring to comply with the
wishes of our Council, it is impossible to find a more apt
precedent for the form of such a notice than that which was
supplied by Dr. Ingram himself in his memoir of the late
Dr. Neilson Hancock; a memoir which, though it defies
imitation in the justness of its proportions, and the lucidity
of its exposition, may fittingly become the model for all our
future attempts to appraise the work of our worthiest
members.
Read 1st November, 1907.
1912-01-01T00:00:00ZFacilities for investing in consolsStanuell, Charles A.http://hdl.handle.net/2262/39392016-09-09T15:36:19Z1912-01-01T00:00:00ZFacilities for investing in consols
Stanuell, Charles A.
It is not my intention to go into the question of the National
Debt as regards its origin; I propose to devote my time this
evening to considering the manner in which dealings with the
Consolidated Debt of Great Britain and Ireland are carried
out, as regards purchase, payment of dividends, and sale.
Read December 6th, 1907
1912-01-01T00:00:00ZA plea for Irish mines and minerals, under an Irish board, and for preparation of a mining surveyGeoghegan, Hanbury C.http://hdl.handle.net/2262/39382016-09-09T15:36:20Z1912-01-01T00:00:00ZA plea for Irish mines and minerals, under an Irish board, and for preparation of a mining survey
Geoghegan, Hanbury C.
The first step is to have a careful mining survey made,
for hitherto none has been attempted; the geological survey,
about which more hereafter, was made from surface indications
only, and from such mining information or traditions as the
officers couid collect. For the preparation of a mining survey
it is essential to make expensive boring operations, in such
localities as may be advised by our mining experts, and for
this diamond-drills and a large sum of money is necessary.
Read Friday, February 7th, 1908
1912-01-01T00:00:00Z