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THE scientific work of the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland received welcome recognition through the opening of the new buildings of the Royal College of Science for Ireland by the King, accompanied by the Queen, as the first act of the royal visit to Dublin on Saturday last, July 8. The ceremony was under the control of the Commissioners of the Board of Public Works, and a picturesque temporary hall had been constructed in the Great Quadrangle, through the open side of which the front of the new college was visible. The vice-president of the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction (the Rt. Hon. T. W. Russell, P.C.), the higher officials of the Department, and the professors of the college, had the honour of being presented to their Majesties. The King was pleased to announce that he had conferred a knighthood on Prof. W. Noel Hartley, F.R.S., dean of faculty of the college, whose absence through temporary illness was greatly regretted. The architects, Sir Aston Webb, R.A., and Mr. T. Manley Deane, and the builder, Mr. W. H. McLaughlin, were presented to his Majesty, who knighted Mr. Deane upon the spot. A pleasing feature was the introduction to their Majesties of a deputation of the foremen engaged upon the works.
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The Opening of the New Buildings of the Royal College of Science for Ireland . Nature 87, 59 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087059a0
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