106 Scientific Proceedings, Royal Dublin Society. 
Stoney’s great personal influence on scientific advance in Ireland. 
The secret of this widespread influence is to be found in his 
perfectly disinterested enthusiasm for science. To the readers of 
his papers this enthusiasm is manifest in that “ capacity for taking 
infinite pains’’ so often characteristic of genius. To those who 
have the privilege of knowing him, it appears in a never-failing 
and most infectious longing to take one step further into the 
unknown ; and this circle of friends, be it said, is a large one, for 
his kindly and simple nature ever gladly extended its sympathy 
to every earnest endeavour. 
The Report of the Science Committee was adopted by the 
Council on February 2nd, 1899. » 
