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The painful task now remains of recording the names of those who 
have been lost to the Academy during the past yearby death; amongst 
them will be found two of the oldest Members of the Academy: 
Dr. Whitley Stokes, elected a Member in 1787; and the Hon, Justice 
Johnston, who was elected a Member in 1790. 
Of Dr. Stokes, whose distinguished career is so well known, it will - 
be unnecessary to say much. The philanthropic and practical objects 
to which his useful life was devoted, left him but little time for purely 
literary or scientific pursuits, and consequently his nme oceurs but 
seldom in the Minutes of the Proceedings of this Academy. But the 
Council cannot permit that name to pass away from the list of Members 
of the Academy, without expressing their respect for the memory of 
one to whose zeal and energy ‘is very mainly to be attributed the 
present flourishing and progressing state of the practical sciences of 
Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, and Zoology, in Dublin and in the 
University .* 
We have also lost our late excellent and active Treasurer, 
Dr. Thomas Herbert Orpen, whose useful life was passed in the constant 
discharge of those benevolent virtues which leave little of incident to be 
recorded in a biographical notice. He commenced practice as a physician 
in Dublin, in 1893, about which period he took the regular medical 
degrees in the University, having previously studied at Edinburgh; and 
the charitable institutions of Dublin engaged a great portion of his time 
and attention. For a great part of his life he kept a diary of the 
weather, noting the heights of the barometer and thermometer, and the 
direction and intensity of the wind, twice every day. These observa- 
tions, which extend through a period of thirty-five years, are now in the 
Academy’s library. 
The names of the remaining deceased Members, with the dates of 
their elections, are as follows:— 
1816, George Kiernan, Esq. 
1824, Hugh Ferguson, M. D. 
1829, John Houston, M.B. 
1836, Thomas Arthur, Esq. 
* A brief Memoir of Dr. Stokes has appeared in the Dublin University 
Magazine, for August, 1845. 
