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Council to pass any eulogium on men so well known, and whose 

 memory will long be cherished in the world of letters. 



The Academy has lost four ordinary Members during the past 

 year, three of whom were among the oldest Members of this Aca- 

 demy. 



1. The Rev. George Miller, D. D., died October 6, 1848, at a 

 very advanced age, having retained the full powers of his active 

 mind to the last. Dr. Miller was fifty-eight years a Member of 

 this Academy, having been elected in the year 1790. He was for 

 many years a Member of Council, and one of our Secretaries. His 

 name is well known in English literature by his Philosophy of His- 

 tory and other works. Dr. Miller was elected a Fellow of Trinity 

 College in 1789; he retired on the living of Derryvollan in 1804, 

 which preferment he held, in conjunction with the head mastership 

 of the school of Armagh, to the day of his death. 



2. The Right Rev. Samuel Kyle, D. D., died May 18, 1848. 

 He was elected a Member of the Academy in 1802, has served for 

 many years in the Council, and filled the office of Secretary. He 

 was also a distinguished ornament of the University, having been 

 elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1798 ; and having been sub- 

 sequently for many years Provost of that College. He was conse- 

 crated Bishop of Cork and Ross in 1831, and afterwards, on the 

 death of Bishop Brinkley, was translated to Cloyne, retaining his 

 jurisdiction over the former dioceses, according to the provisions of 

 the Act of Parliament which suppressed the temporalities of Cork 

 and Ross. 



3. The Right Hon. Maurice Fitzgerald, Knight of Kerry, died 

 March 7, 1849. He was another of our oldest surviving Members, 

 having been elected in 1796. He was the eldest son of Robert, 

 Knight of Kerry, by his third wife, Catharine, daughter of Lan- 

 celot Sandes, Esq., and was born 29th December, 1774. Mr. Fitz- 

 gerald sat as representative for the borough of Ardfert, in the Irish 

 Parliament, and was one of the Members appointed by the Act of 

 Union to represent the county of Kerry in the first imperial Par- 

 liament of the united kingdom. He died at Glanleam, near Va- 

 lentia, in the seventy-fifth year of his age. 



