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development are to be found in it, while it anticipates 

 many of the conclusions of Adam Smith. 



Under date of November n, 1736, at the annual 

 election of officers, the Rev. Gabriel Jacques Maturin, 

 who had joined the Society in 1734, was elected secre- 

 tary in the room of Dr. Stephens. He was born at 

 Utrecht, son of Pierre, and grandson of Gabriel Maturin, 

 a Huguenot, who fled to Holland, from the persecution 

 of Louis XIV, and thence came to Dublin, where his 

 son was educated. Maturin became Dean of Kildare 

 in 1737, and on November 29, 1745, was installed Dean 

 of St Patrick's in succession to Swift. Maturin died in 

 the following year. 



