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and if your lot is cast in a distant land, you may add greatly and largely 

 to the borders of science. Such has been the fortunate lot of the 

 distinguished member whom we are assembled to-day to address with 

 our congratulations — Captain M'Clintock. I prefer, gentlemen, to call 

 him Captain M'Clintock. Ho has not yet worn his spurs long enough to 

 make the handle to his name familiar to my tongue. He is a Doctor of 

 this University, and a citizen of London ; he has been knighted by the 

 Queen ; he has received from every class of his countrymen, both here and 

 in England, congratulations and addresses on his return ; but I believe I 

 may say, in your name, that we will not yield to any body, to any corpora- 

 tion, or to any class of men who have addressed him and presented him 

 with rewards, in a sincere and heartfelt admiration of his achievements. 

 "Where are we to seek for a cordial admiration of brave deeds if not 

 in the hearts of the young ? The old will ask, what were his motives, 

 what was his object, what will he gain? But the young will impede 

 us with no such questions, but will spontaneously accept the brave 

 deeds of a brave and honest heart and hand. 



Before I sit down, I would say a few words as to the additions which 

 Captain M'Clintock has made to our science. I believe they are known 

 to many here, and a minute examination of them would be tedious ; but 

 a few words respecting the circumstances under which they were made, 

 I believe, will not be uninteresting — "Donum non est aestimandum 

 magnitudine doni, sed mente datoris." Whether we estimate the 

 additions made to the sciences of zoology and geology by our distin- 

 guished member, by the value of the presents he has made to the 

 Royal Dublin Society, — or whether we consider the important inferences 

 that may be drawn from them, — it is impossible to value too highly the 

 gift that that Society has received. It is right that I should here men- 

 tion that when Captain M'Clintock first presented his fossil collection to 

 the Royal Dublin Society, he kindly placed at my disposal, for the 

 Museum of this University, his very valuable collection of minerals. 

 I thought it right not to let the interests of science suffer from any 

 petty feeling of jealousy, and therefore I had great pleasure in hand- 

 ing over to the Royal Dublin Society that very valuable mineralo- 

 gical collection, and they are now in the Museum of that Society ; 

 and, together with the Greenland collection of Sir Charles Giesecke, 

 form a collection which, I am proud to say, this city need not be 

 ashamed of, inasmuch as it is far superior to any other collection 



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