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together, one forenoon, to call on Dr. Harvey at his rooms in College. 

 In tho ante-chamber the portraits of Forbes, Thompson, and other natu- 

 ralists were on the walls. As we passed along, Dr. Ball stopped, pointed 

 to the portraits of his deceased friends, and simply said, " Who next ?" 

 Before the ensuing month was ended, the question had been solved. 



He had been apparently in his usual health, when, on the morning 

 of Friday, the 27th of March, he was suddenly seized with symptoms of 

 an alarming kind. The illness, after assuming phases which for some 

 hours renewed the hopes of his family, terminated fatally on the even- 

 ing of Monday, the 30th. A post-mortem examination, held in confor- 

 mity with his own express instructions, showed that the immediate 

 cause of death was rupture of the aorta. 



The funeral took place on Friday morning, the 3rd of April, in the 

 cemetery of Mount Jerome. The Royal Irish Academy, in its corporate 

 capacity, took part in the mournful procession, the mace, enveloped in 

 crape, being borne before the President. 



The members of the Royal Dublin Society and of the Dublin Uni- 

 versity Zoological and Botanical Association were specially invited to 

 attend by notices sent out by their respective Secretaries. 



In the brief interval between his death and his funeral many warm- 

 hearted friends had been pondering in what way they could best testify 

 their regard for him who had been removed from among them; but to the 

 Board of Trinity College must be conceded the honour of being the first 

 to adopt a line of conduct which would mark their respect to the dead, 

 yet not wound the delicacy of the living. 



On the same day that his remains were consigned to the grave the 

 Board met, passed a resolution granting to his widow an annuity for 

 life, and had this communicated to her in the kindest and most consi- 

 derate manner. 



On the ensuing morning the Council of the Zoological Society as- 

 sembled as usual at the " Gardens," and adopted a course which testified 

 their conviction of the loss they had sustained by Dr. Ball's death, and 

 their solicitous regard for the feelings of the survivors. They deter- 

 mined on establishing a " Memorial Fund" expressly for the benefit of 

 his children, and communicated this decision to Mrs. Ball, accompanied 

 by expressions of their deep sympathy for her bereavement. 



Among the Minutes passed by different bodies with which Dr. Ball 



