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thanks have been voted to the donors, at the meetings of the Aca- 

 demy. The Academy continues in communication with the prin- 

 cipal scientific bodies of Europe and America, witli which an inter- 

 change of Transactions and other publications is i^ept up. 



*' During the past year the accession of new members to the 

 Academy has been such as to show, that notwithstanding the usually 

 abstract nature of its proceedings, its importance is fully recog- 

 nized. As honorary members, two have been elected on the recom- 

 mendation of the Council : the one a philosopher of European 

 eminence. Professor Wheatstone ; the other, an Irish woman, whose 

 name adorns the roll of the Academy, as her works have long shed 

 lustre on the literature of her country, Miss Edgeworth. The names 

 of the gentlemen who have been elected ordinary members of the 

 Academy are : 



Rer. Richard Butler. W. V. Drury, M. D. 



Dr. Robert Law. W. R. Gore, M. D. 

 John Toleken, Esq., F.T.C.D. J. E. Hodder, Esq., R. N. 



William Blacker, Esq. Rev. John Homan. 



Rev. James Booth. H. Hutton, Esq. 



Arthur Cane, Esq. R. Leslie Ogilby, Esq. 



B. J. Chapman, Esq. Hon. Frederick Ponsonby. 



F. M. Jennings, Esq. George Salmon, Esq., F.T.C.D. 



Sir Thomas Staples, Bart. Robert Culley, Esq. 



Stewart Blacker, Esq. James Magee, Esq. 



Thomas Gather, Esq. H. L. Renny, Esq. 



" In a body so numerous as ours, it could not be expected that 

 a year should pass away without the loss of some from amongst our 

 ranks. Unhappily within the last twelve months we have had oc- 

 casion to deplore the deaths of several valued members. 



" From the list of honorary members three have been removed 

 Sir James Ivory, Mr. Allan Cunningham, and Professor Heeren. 

 Of our ordinary members we have lost the Hon. Judge Foster, the 

 Right Rev. Charles Dickenson, late Lord Bishop of Meath, Dr. 

 Macartney, Mr. David Aher, and Mr. Bowles. It is fit to notice 

 briefly their career and their connexion with this Academy. 



" Sir James Ivory was a native of Dundee, and studied in the 

 University of St. Andrew's, where he first distinguished himself in 



