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The painful task now remains of recording the names of those who 

 have been lost to the Academy during the past yearby death ; amongst 

 them will be found two of the oldest Members of the Academy: 

 Dr. Whitley Stokes, elected a Member in 1787; and the Hon, Justice 

 Johnston, who was elected a Member in 1790. 



Of Dr. Stokes, whose distinguished career is so well known, it will . 

 be unnecessary to say much. The philanthropic and practical objects 

 to which his useful life was devoted, left him but little time for purely 

 literary or scientific pursuits, and consequently his nme occurs but 

 seldom in the Minutes of the Proceedings of this Academy. But the 

 Council cannot permit that name to pass away from the list of Members 

 of the Academy, without expressing their respect for the memory of 

 one to whose zeal and energy is very mainly to be attributed the 

 present flourishing and progressing state of the practical sciences of 

 Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, and Zoology, in Dublin and in the 

 University.* 



We have also lost our late excellent and active Treasurer, 

 Dr. Thomas Herbert Orpen, whose useful life was passed in the constant 

 discharge of those benevolent virtues which leave little of incident to be 

 recorded in abiographical notice. He commenced practice as a physician 

 in Dublin, in 1803, about which period he took the regular medical 

 degrees in the University, having previously studied at Edinburgh ; and 

 the charitable institutions of Dublin engaged a great portion of his time 

 and attention. For a great part of his life he kept a diary of the 

 weather, noting the heights of the barometer and thermometer, and the 

 direction and intensity of the wind, twice every day. These observa- 

 tions, which extend through a period of thirty-five years, are now in the 

 Academy's library. 



The names of the remaining deceased Members, with the dates of 

 their elections, are as follows: — 



1816, George Kiernan, Esq. 

 1824, Hugh Ferguson, M. D. 

 1829, John Houston, M.B. 

 1836, Thomas Arthur, Esq. 



* A brief Memoir of Dr. Stoljes has appeared in the Dublin University 

 Magazine, for August, 1843. 



