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During the past year seventeen new members have been elected 

 into the Academy. Their names arc as follows, viz.: 



George J. Allman, M.D. Rt. Hon. The Earl of Dunravcn. 



Rev. Francis Crawford. Matthew Dease, Esq. 



Henry Lindsay, Esq. William M'Dougall, Esq. 



John M'Mullen, Esq. Sir Montague L. Chapman, Bart. 



Hon. and Very Rev. Henry Pak- James H. Pickford, M.D. 



enham, Dean of St. Patrick's. Edward Bewley, M.D. 



Goddard Richards, Esq. James S. Eiffe, Esq. 



John Wynne, Esq. William Henry, Esq. 



I. George Abeltshauser, A.B. John Neville, Esq. 



Out of our list of members we have to deplore the loss of 

 several since the date of our last Report ; most of them, certainly, 

 persons whose energies, being devoted to other spheres, rendered 

 their connexion with this Academy only nominal : but some, and 

 especially one, whose connexion with us was of the closest and most 

 endearing kind, whose scientific labours in various climates were of 

 an extent and diversity which, while they created for him a dis- 

 tinguished reputation, unfortunately sapped the foundations of his 

 health. 



List of Members of the Royal Irish Academy deceased since the 



\m of March, 1843. 

 Robert Bateson, Esq. Major-General Sir Joseph O'Hal- 



Thomas Coulter, M.D. loran, K.C.B. 



Right Hon. William Vesey Lord Rev. Thomas Prior, D.D. 



Fitzgerald and Vesci. Rt. Hon. John RadclifiFe, LL.D. 



Arthur Hume, Esq. 



Honorary Members deceased: 

 His Royal Highness the Duke of Professor Wallace. 

 Sussex. 

 Amongst the honorary members had been reckoned his Royal 

 Highness the Duke of Sussex. His exalted rank removed him from 

 in any way personally contributing to the advancement of knowledge, 

 but he favoured its cultivation by his august patronage, and filled for 

 many years the office of President of the Society of Arts, having a 

 decided taste for practical mechanics, and leaving behind him, at his 



