THE ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY 



They do not appear to have been preserved after this 

 date. From the I5th of March, 1764, the minutes 

 were printed. 



The Dictionary of National Biography has been 

 largely used in the numerous biographical notices 

 throughout the volume, and the splendid collection of 

 pamphlets formed by the late Mr. Charles Haliday, 

 now in the Royal Irish Academy, afforded valuable 

 information on many questions in which the Dublin 

 Society was from time to time interested. 



Albrecht von Haller (1707-1777), whose allusion 

 to the Society and its work appears in the quotation in 

 the title-page, was a Swiss anatomist and physiologist, 

 who obtained a European reputation. King George II 

 conferred on him the chair of medicine in the Uni- 

 versity of Gfittingen, and in 1743 the Royal Society 

 elected him one of its Fellows. 



H. F. BERRY. 



DUBLIN, 

 December, 1914. 



