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rous pupils, many of whom have attained to rank and respectability, 

 and many of whom surround me, prove equally the interest he took 

 in their welfare, and his exertions to secure it ; while the knowledge he 

 acquired in Mathematics and Natural Science, evince that his horce 

 subsecivce^ were not devoted to personal ease or relaxation. His 

 character for labour and research was sufficiently developed to 

 justify his appointment, while a Junior Fellow, to the Professor- 

 ship of Mathematics, on Dr. Magee, the late Archbishop of Dublin, 

 retiring from that situation : and some years afterwards, to that of 

 Natural Philosophy. To the manner in which he filled those im- 

 portant stations, academic and public opinion has long since given 

 its approbation ; and it was in full accordance with that opinion, 

 loudly and unanimously expressed, that when the present Bishop of 

 Cork was raised to that see. Dr. Lloyd was elevated from among 

 the Fellows of the University, to preside as Provost over its in- 

 terests. 



This event, hailed by every friend of science and education, 

 took place in 1831, and perhaps no six years in the history of 

 any institution can be compared to those which passed under his 

 brief administration, with regard to substantial improvement, 

 changes rapid, though well weighed, and reform mild and prudent, 

 yet searching and effective. Scarcely a portion of the system of 

 education but was subjected to consideration, and in many in- 

 stances to changes fully justified by experience ; and while we now 

 look back with astonishment upon all that the energy and discrimi- 

 nation of one man could effect, we must not withhold our high 

 approbation from those, who, unimpeded by any love of system, or 

 habit, or prejudice, seconded so nobly his exertions : and we may 

 rejoice that he was enabled to compass such a mass of reform, with- 

 out experiencing a failure, and without endangering a friendship. On 

 the regretted death of our President, the justly esteemed Bishop of 

 Cloyne, the choice of the Academy almost unanimously devolved 

 on Dr. Lloyd ; and he who had shewn himself the active, intelli- 

 gent, and instructed patron and promoter of every useful science, 

 himself no mean proficient in all, — ^he who mainly by his influence 

 and character had collected here the representatives of science 

 from every quarter of the globe, and made the metropolis of Ire- 

 land, for the season, that of natural knowledge, — ^he was elected 

 almost by acclamation to preside over the meetings of the Koyal 



