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towards an existing President, the expediency of introducing any rules 
of practice with respect to the election of the President, which, in the 
judgment of the Council, might seem desirable. 
The President being by our charter an annual officer, it is of course 
the undoubted right of the Academy to re-elect the same individual as 
«often as they think fit; and with this right, as it is a chartered right, 
perhaps not even the Academy itself, could directly interfere. Butasa 
majority of the Council were in favour of some limitation, the following 
resolution was communicated to the Academy, on the 23rd ult. :— 
“ Resotvep,—That the Council are of opinion, that it is not 
expedient that the same person should be elected to the office of Presi- 
dent more than five times in succession.” 
In this opinion the Academy at the same meeting expressed their 
concurrence. 
During the past year the distinguished name of William W ordsworth 
was added to our list of Honorary Members; and forty ordinary members 
have been elected during the same period, whose names are as follows : 
J. A. Galbraith, Esq. 
J. Jameson, Esq. 
John F. Waller, Esq. 
C. Bournes, Esq. 
W. C. Dobbs, Esq. 
W. Henn, Esq. 
Digby P. Starkey, Esq. 
B. Wilme, Esq. 
J. Clarridge, Esq. 
Adolphus Cooke, Esq. 
Wyndham Goold, Esq. 
C. K. King, M.D. 
C. W. Williams, Esq. 
James S. Close, Esq. 
D. Conolly, Esq. 
David Moore, esq. 
Rev. Classon Porter, 
James Talbot, Esq. 
The Earl of Enniskillen. 
Rev. John Connell. 
John C. Deane, Esq. 
Richard Deasy, Esq. 
Conyngham Ellis, Esq. 
W. Lioyd, M.D. 
A. R. Nugent, Esq. 
E. K. Tenison, Esq. 
F. J. Tyrrell, Esq. 
J. Tuffnell, Esq. 
Richard Cane, Esq. 
R. Franks, Esq. 
Charles W. Levinge, Esq. 
Pierce Moreton, Esq. 
James C. Sherrard, Esq. 
Stephen O’ Meagher, Esq. 
Thomas Butler, Esq. 
John T. Evans, M. D. 
Richard R. Madden, Esq. 
Robert C. Williams, M.D. 
The Ven. Henry Cotton, D.C.L. Henry W. Massey, Esq. 
