Letter from G T Plunkett, Director of the Department of Science and Art, Kildare Street, Dublin, to Dr [Herbert] Rix, Secretary of the Government Grant Committee, The Royal Society Plunkett presents his suggestion that 'grants ocassionally made by the Royal Society for the prupose of making zoological collection on the Irish coasts or in the Irish seas', 'in these cases a complete set of the specimens obtained should be deposited in the Dublin Museum'. 11 November 1896