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living men before her, tlie others were done from photogtaphs. I 

 would, therefore, throw out the suggestion to the Members of the 

 Academy that the portrait of the President — of him who so worthily 

 fills the chair — should be painted from the life, and not left to our 

 successors at some, I trust very remote, period to have it taken from 

 a photograph. 



I need not say with what very great pleasure I second the 

 vote of thanks to the President for his address, which has been 

 proposed by the Lord Lieutenant. His Excellency, in honouring 

 the Academy with his presence here this evening, is performing 

 one of the many and multifarious duties, and, I trust, not the least 

 pleasing, that appertain to his high office ; for under the Royal 

 Charter by which the Academy was formed the post of Yisitor was 

 assigned to the Chief Governor of Ireland. 



The Lord Lieutenant in putting the resolution, said — 

 I am asked to perform the very unnecessary duty of putting the 

 resolution to the Meeting. I will not do it in the ordinary form, for 

 I see it is the wish of everyone that the resolution should be carried 

 with acclamation. 



The President, in acknowledging, said — 



I thank your Excellency for the very kind expressions which fell 

 from you respecting me ; and I also thank Sir John Banks for what 

 he was good enough to say, though I fear what he said was rather 

 dictated by his friendship for me than by any merits which I may 

 have. I wish also to thank your Excellency on the part of the 

 Academy. As has been mentioned by yourself and Sir John Banks, 

 you are, by virtue of the high office which you fill in this country. 

 Visitor of tlie Academy. You have not allowed that title to remain 

 a dead letter. You have, as I know, inspected our antiquarian 

 collections in the Museum of Science and Art ; and on this occasion 

 you have had the gracious thought of coming amongst us on the 

 occasion of one of our meetings, and personally taking part in our 

 proceedings. In the name of the Royal Irish Academy, I beg to 

 tender to your Excellency our respectful thanks. 



