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6th. Four years previously he had published his important 

 treatise on active and extinct Volcanoes. 



" Dr. Robinson," who was invited to the Club on June 

 3rd by Captain Beaufort, was undoubtedly the Rev. Thomas 

 Romney Robinson, the eminent Irish astronomer, the 

 inventor of the excellent cup-anemometer which bears his 

 name, who became President of the Royal Irish Academy. 

 He was a Fellow and Royal Medallist of the Royal Society. 

 He lived to the great age of ninety, surviving till 1882. 



