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which he remained until his death, which took place in Calcutta 
at the date above mentioned. 
We now come to a name which we have reserved to the last 
just because it is with us the reverse of least, the name of one 
whose birth and whose death both occurred in Dublin, those 
events being separated by the long interval of ninety-four years, 
whose residence, since he was old enough to have one of his own, 
was in Dublin, and whose wonderful and long extended geological 
labours were entirely directed to the elucidation of the geology of 
this country, and who was the constructor of the remarkable first 
geological map of Ireland, Sir Richard John Griffith, Bart., LL.p. 
He was removed from us on September 22, 1878, after having just 
entered upon his 95th year. 
At the mention of Sir Richard Griffith, we perceive that the 
connexion between the Geological and the Royal Dublin Societies 
does not depend merely upon the arbitrary “ association” that was 
effected a little more than a year ago. We feel on the present 
occasion that there is a further bond of union between the two. 
In the first place, they are equally concerned to join together in 
the commemoration of one and the same individual who was an 
eminent member of both Societies. For many years, in the earlier 
part of his long connexion with the Royal Dublin Society, he was 
a most active, useful, and prominent officer of that Society, and 
for the last ten years he wasa Vice-President of the same. Onthe 
other hand, he was an original member of the Geological Society 
of Dublin, and at the formal opening of the Society in February, 
1833, he was Vice-President thereof and afterwards President 
twice. At the time of his death he was still Vice-President. 
But, further, his long continued labours in connexion with the 
Royal Dublin Society, which added so much to the usefulness and 
prestige thereof, were all in the region of geology and mining 
surveying, the very province of the Geological Society ; so that 
the two Societies are equally interested not only in the man per- 
sonally, but also in his scientific work. He was the oldest sur- 
viving member of the Royal Dublin Society, having joined it in 
1808, the same year in which he joined the Royal Society of 
Edinburgh and the Geological Society of London. If he could 
not be called the oldest member of the Geological Society of 
Dublin, it is because it was not organized until the beginning of 
