278 A HISTORY OF 



government engineer for the western district of 

 Ireland, subscribed fpr a bust, in memory of him ; 

 this was offered to the Society, and it now stands in 

 the reception-room. The bust was executed by John 

 Jones, at one time a student in the schools. 



Sir Robert Kane resigned the professorship of 

 Natural Philosophy in November 1 847, and Dr. William 

 Barker was elected in his room. Dr. W. H. Harvey 

 became professor of Botany in place of Dr. Litton, 

 and Dr. Charles Croker King became honorary pro- 

 fessor of Anatomy in connection with the fine arts, 

 in the room of Dr. Woodroofe. 



Owing to troubles connected with Smith O'Brien's 

 rising in 1848, troops were quartered for several 

 months on the Society's premises. From the jrd of 

 April, cavalry and infantry occupied the cattle yard, 

 the buildings in it, and other portions of the premises, 

 while the officers used the conversation and board 

 rooms. 



In 1849, William Stokes, M.D. (i), George Petrie, 

 LL.D. (see p. 119), and Charles Bianconi (2) were elected 

 members, and on the 7th of November 1850, the latter 

 was elected an honorary member. 



I. William Stokes, son of Whitley Stokes, regius professor 

 of Medicine in the University of Dublin, was born in 1804. 

 In 1825, he published a work on the Use of the Stethoscope, 

 which was the earliest treatise on that subject that appeared 

 in these countries. He also wrote on the curability of 

 phthisis, and in 1834 became editor of the Dublin Journal of 

 Medical Science. Dr. Stokes was afterwards elected a Fellow 

 of the Royal Society, and he became regius professor of 

 Medicine in the University, and physician to the Queen in 

 Ireland. He was regarded as one of the greatest physicians 

 of his time, and his works have been translated into French, 

 German, and Italian. Stokes was a warm friend of George 

 Petrie, and published a memoir of him in 1866. A portrait 



