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William King, Sch.T.C.D., after- William Palliser, F.T.C.D., Pro- 

 wards Archbishop of Dublin, fessor of Divinity, and after- 

 Richard Acton, B.D., F.T.C.D. wards Archbishop of Cashel. 

 St. George Ashe, F.T.C.D., after- Edward Smith, F.T.C.D., Pro- 

 wards Bishop of Cloyne. fessor of Mathematics, and af- 

 Mark Baggot, Esq. lerwards Bishop of Down and 

 John Bulkeley, Esq. Connor. 

 Paul Chamberlain, M.D. John Stanley, M.A. 

 Robert Clements, Esq. Jacobus Silvius, M.D. 



Francis Cuff, Esq. Walkington, Esq.* 



Christopher Dominick, M.D. Sir Paul Ricaut, 



Corresponding Member — Doctor, afterwards Sir Thomas Molyneaux, 



Bart. 

 " These men formed the stellce majores of Irish literature 

 and science at this period ; and nearly every one of those of 

 whom we have any subsequent account attained to considerable 

 eminence either here or in England. 



" At this time Sir William Petty designed to remodel the 

 society, and drew up a code of laws for its future regulation 

 and government, which were deemed worthy of being referred 

 to the Council of the Royal Society, to see how far they might 

 be useful to that body. We here find from authentic docu- 

 ments that some of the principal men of learning and science 

 at that time in Great Britain, and even on the Continent, 

 looked with a favourable eye on our Philosophical Society, 

 and addressed to it, through its Secretary, several letters and 

 papers upon scientific subjects, some of which are still pre- 

 served in the original Minute Book in the British Museum, 

 and abstracts of which are to be found in the records of the 

 Royal Society. At the end of the first year we find its pro- 

 gress thus recorded by William Molyneaux. ' Our societj'^ 



* I have not been able to discover the Christian name of this gentleman, 

 as the name was common in the University at that period. It was probably 

 Samuel Walkington, who was a Scholar in 1680, for Edward Walkington, 

 who was a Fellow in 1676, Archdeacon of Ossory in 1683, and afterwards 

 Bishop of Down and Connor, in 1695, was elected into the Philosophical 

 Soiiety on its revival in 1693. 



