576 Ohituanj—The Rev. llaxwell Close. 



became curate of Weltham in the same county until 1861. Returning- 

 to Ireland, he devoted himself almost entirely to scientific and 

 literary pursuits. In 1867 he was elected a member of the Eoyal 

 Irish Academy, whose treasurer he became in 1878. A constant 

 attendant at the stated meetings of the Academy, Mr. Close made 

 some notable contributions to its literature, which were published in 

 the Society's " Proceedings." Amongst the articles written by him 

 may be mentioned his "Note on the Moon's Variation and Parallactic 

 Inequality," which appeared in 1891, and was followed in 1901 by 

 a paper on " Hipparchus and the Precession of the Equinoxes," and 

 " Eemarks on a Cosmographical Tractate in the Irish Language in 

 the Library of the Eoyal Irish Academy." In addition he published 

 a small work on astronomy, of which he was a keen student. He 

 was a member of the Committee of Polite Literature of the Academ3\ 

 and also a member of the Council, while his connection with the 

 Eoyal Dublin Society goes back to an early date. He became 

 a Fellow of the Geological Society of London in 1874. He wa& 

 a leading member of the Eoyal Geological Society of Ireland, 

 Dublin, and served as President of that body in 1878, when the 

 first meeting of the Society was held in connection with the Eoyal 

 Dublin Society. He was a contributor to the Geological Magazine 

 for a number of years. — Principally taken from the Dublin Evening^ 

 Mail, Sept. 15, 1903. 



The following is a list of scientific papers by the Eev. Maxwell 

 H. Close :— 



1. — " Ou some Striated Surfaces in the Granite near Dublin" [1863]: Dublin 



Geol. Soc. Journ., vol. x (1864), pp. 96-103. 

 2. — "Notes on the general Glaciatiou of the Kocks in the Neis-hbourhood of 



Dublin" [1864] : Ireland Geol. Soc. Journ., vol. i (1867), pp.''3-12. 

 3. — "Notes on the general Glaciatiou of Ireland" [1866]: Ireland Geol. Soc. 



Journ., vol. i (1867), pp. 207-242 ; Geol. Mag., Vol. IV (1867), pp. 234-235. 

 4. — " On some Peculiarities in the Phenomena of Glaciatiou as indicating the Nature- 



of the Agent" [1866] : Ireland Geol. Soc. Journ., vol. i (1867), pp. 287-288.^ 

 5. — "Archdeacon Pratt on M. Delaunay's Experiments on the Internal Fluidity of 



the Eai-th": Geol. Mag., Vol. VII (1870), p. 537. 

 6. — " On some Corries and their Rock-basins in Kerry" [1870] : Ireland Geol. Soc. 



Jouru., vol. ii (1871), pp. 236-249. 

 7. — "The elevated Shell-bearing Gravels near Dublin" [1873]: Geol. Mag., 



Dec. II, Vol. I (1874), pp. 193-197 ; Ireland Geol. Soc. Journ., vol. iv (1877), 



pp. 36-40. 

 8. — " Concerning the Extent of Geological Time" : Brit. Assoc. Eep. (1878), p. 548 ;; 



Geol. Mag., Dec. II, Vol. V (1878), pp. 450-455. 

 9. — "The Physical Geology of the Neighbourhood of Dublin": Dublin Soc. Sci. 



Proc, vol. i (1878), "pp. 133-161 ; Ireland Geol. Soc. Journ., vol. v (1880), 



pp. 49-77. 

 10. — Anniversary Address to the Eoyal Geological Society of Ireland [Feb. 18, 1878] :: 



Dublin Soc. Sci. Proc, vol. ii (1880), pp. 5-24'; Ireland Geol. Soc. Journ., 



vol. V (1880), pp. 1-20. 

 11. — Anniversary Address to the Royal Geological Society of Ireland [Feb. 17, 1879] :. 



Dublin Soc. Sci. Proc, vol. ii (1880), pp. 191-208 ; Ireland Geol. Soc. Journ., 



vol. V (1880), pp. 132-149. 

 12. — " On the Definition of Force as the Cause of Motion, wAh. some of the incon- 

 veniences connected therewith" [1882]: Dublin Soc. Sci. Proc, vol. iii 



(1883), pp. 336-343. 

 13._<' On the meaning of ' Force' " : Phil. Mag., vol. xv (1883), pp. 248-251. 



