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Clibborn exhibited a table of electricity on the bifur- 

 cate mode, and Dr. Kane spoke on the interference of 

 sonorous waves. Dr. (afterwards Sir) Robert J. Kane 

 had been elected professor of natural philosophy in 

 1834, a post which he held until 1847. He was born 

 in Dublin in 1809, and became a physician, founding 

 in 1832 the Dublin Journal of Medical Science. Kane 

 published, in 1841, Elements of Chemistry, theoretical ; 

 and practical. He also edited the Philosophical Maga- 

 zine, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 

 in 1849, m which year he was appointed President of 

 Queen's College, Cork. Kane paid great attention to 

 Irish industries, and wrote on the industrial resources 

 of the country. When the Museum of Irish Industry 

 was founded in St. Stephen's Green, he became its 

 director. Sir Robert Kane obtained the gold medal 

 of the Royal Irish Academy for his researches in 

 chemistry, and in 1877 he was elected its president. 

 A portrait of him hangs in the Academy House. 



During the last few years had been elected as 

 honorary members, Sir Robert Seppings, bart., com- 

 missioner of the navy, for his great scientific improve- 

 ments in building ships of war and other vessels ; Sir 

 Martin Archer Shee, who, in his reply to the com- 

 munication announcing his election, stated that, having 

 been a student of the schools, he would ever revere 

 the names of Morgan Crofton, Thomas Braughall (i), 

 and Burton Conyngham, who exerted themselves with 

 zeal and patriotism in the cause of art ; William 

 Rowan Hamilton (2), professor of astronomy, and 

 Sir Frederick Madden, librarian of the British Museum, 

 were also elected honorary members. Among the 

 ordinary members admitted occur the names of Charles 

 Haliday (3), and the Rev. James Henthorn Todd, 

 F.T.C.D (4). 



