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on the resignation of Patton, Edward R. P. Colles 

 became librarian. He was succeeded in 1876, by 

 William Archer, f.r.s., who from 1877 to 1895, was 

 librarian of the National Library. On Mr. Archer's 

 retirement in the latter year, Mr. Thomas W. 

 Lyster, m.a., the present librarian, was appointed. 



A most important addition was made to the Lib- 

 rary in the year 1863, by Dr. Jasper Joly's gift to it 

 of some 23,000 volumes, together with an exten- 

 sive collection of Irish and Scotch song music. The 

 deed of gift, which was subject to certain conditions, 

 was dated 8th April 1863, and, in acknowledgment of 

 his splendid donation, Dr. Joly was elected an honorary 

 member of the Society. His portrait, by Catterson 

 Smith, hangs in the library, Leinster House. The 

 chief interest in the Joly collection lies in the large 

 number of volumes which deal with Irish history 

 and topography. A considerable portion is taken up 

 with the story and campaign of Napoleon, while 

 numerous works illustrate the history of the French 

 Revolution, and French literature and works on the 

 age of Louis the Fourteenth are well represented. 

 Among the rare and curious volumes in the Joly 

 collection are the following — Orationes of St. Brigid 

 of Sweden (which is probably unique) ; Lyra seu 

 Anacephalceosis Hibernica, by Thomas Carve, a Tip- 

 perary man, chaplain to the Irish troops in the 

 Thirty Years' War. His works are very scarce, and 

 only three copies of the first edition of the Lyra are 

 known, one being the volume in this collection. The 

 Itinerarium of Carve (1640-6), giving an account of 

 the Thirty Years' War, is also there ; Analecta Sacra 



was a frequent contributor to the Dubfai University Magazine. This 

 man of wide culture, wit, and high social qualities, as well as a true 

 poet, died in 1867. 



