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at having been present at this meeting, and having heard so vahiable and 

 interesting a paper as that of the late Lord O'Neill. 



The motion was unanimously agreed to. 



The Bishop of Derry : Perhaps I may be allowed to say just one word. 

 I am sure it will be a great consolation to Lady O'Neill to hear of the favour 

 with which her husband's most excellent paper has been received. The 

 Bishop of Ballarat, in the remarks he made, spoke of things as they ought to 

 be, and not, I am afraid, as they are. I am afraid that long words do make 

 a great impression, especially on the minds of young men. Archbishop 

 Whateley was in the habit of illustrating this by telling some of his 

 friends a story about a lady to whom he gave some advice as to medicine 

 for her children. When he told her to give them some tartar emetic she was 

 horrified ; but when he said she should give them a little antimonial wine 

 she replied that she would be very gkd to do so. "With reference to the 

 paper itself, a nickname is very often a sort of condensed epigram. The 

 very word " carpenter " throws ridicule on the larger idea of the creation, and 

 the word " adulation " makes praise odious. I have to thank the meeting 

 very much for the attention which they have bestowed upon the paper. Just 

 to recall for one moment what Lord O'Neill was, I must say that he was at 

 once a man of extreme modesty and a man of very singular gifts. If not 

 a heaven-born mathematician, he was exceedingly able in mastering mathe- 

 matical problems. His musical gifts were something marvellous. He was a 

 learned divine and ripe scholar, and up to the last days of his life one of his 

 greatest pleasures was to walk out with a friend and talk over with him a 

 chapter of the Greek Testament. Above all and beyond all, his soul was 

 based on a rock, and that rock was Christ. 



Mr. D. Howard (Vice-Pres. Inst. Chemistry), — It is not without deep 

 feeling that I rise to propose a vote of condolence to Lady O'Neill. 

 The beautifully lucid paper to which we have just listened comes to us with 

 the deep solemnity of a voice from beyond the tomb. These are almost the 

 last words of one who had devoted all the exceptionally high powers of his 

 mind to the highest uses, and is now gone to join the heavenly choir, where 

 the music he loved so well here shall find its highest expression ; to that 

 heaven where all the deep problems with which he dealt here find their true 

 solution, to live for ever in the beatific vision of Him who is the Truth. 



The thought of this is specially fitting for us as members of an Institute 

 which seeks to harmonise all our intellectual powers with the life to come 

 and to teach us so to pass our lives in things intellectual and philosophical 

 that finally we lose not things eternal. 



Mr. Hormuzd Rassam. — Permit me to second this vote. 



Bishop Ryan, D.D. — I have great pleasure in proposing that the thanks 

 of this meeting be presented to Sir Henry Barkly, our chairman upon the 

 present occasion. During some eventful years of my life I often had the 

 pleasure of seeing Sir Henry Barkly in the chair at meetings in the distant 

 land of Mauritius, where he was always ready to encourage scientific know- 

 ledge. I was very much struck with one of the speeches we have heard, and 

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