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had been connected, and which testified in various ways the estimation 

 in which ho had been held, none was more grateful to his family than 

 the following from the Senate of the Queen's University, and which was 

 transmitted in the kindest manner by the Lord Chancellor Brady, Vice- 

 Chancellor of the University : — 



"At this, their first meeting since the melancholy event of the 

 death of their late Secretary, Dr. Robert Ball, the members of the Senate 

 of the Queen's University desire to record upon the Minutes of their 

 Transactions their deep sense of the loss which the University has sus- 

 tained in being deprived of the services of a gentleman who was, both 

 in his public and private character, so highly valued and esteemed. 



" In the discharge of his duties to the Senate and to the Queen's 

 Colleges, of which it is the head, Dr. Ball displayed the most anxious 

 and zealous solicitude for the interest and welfare of those institutions, 

 and the most patient attention to every detail of business intrusted to 

 his management, while he brought to the exercise of all the functions of 

 his office, and faithfully devoted to the service of the University, the 

 energies of a powerful, well-ordered mind, richly stored with scientific 

 and literary acquirements. 



" The Members of the Senate further desire to convey to the widow 

 and family of Dr. Ball this expression of their opinion of his merits and 

 of their regret for his loss, together with their sincere condolence with 

 her and them in the severe affliction with which they have been visited ; 

 and they request the Vice- Chancellor will transmit to Mrs. Ball a copy 

 of this Minute." 



On the 2nd of April, 1857, the Royal Dublin Society passed the fol- 

 lowing resolution : — 



" Resolved, — That the late lamented death of our esteemed member 

 of Council, Robert Ball, LL. D., is an event calling for the marked sym- 

 pathy of the Society ; that the Members take the present opportunity 

 of recording their regret at his loss and their respect for his memory, 

 as well on account of private worth as of his varied acquirements, and 

 the great zeal and assiduity he displayed in the numerous scientific 

 occupations in which he was engaged, particularly evidenced by his 

 successful superintendence for many years of the Royal Zoological 

 Society." 



The following resolution was passed at a meeting of the Geological 



