280 Royal Irish Academy. 



The Academy has lost by death within the year twelve Members : — 



"William Archer, p.e.s., elected 10th January, 1870. 



Eight Hon. Chichester, Baron Carlingford, k.p., elected 12th May^ 



1873. 

 Eev. Joseph Carson, d.d., Vice-Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, 



elected 12th February, 1838. 

 James Colthurst, m.a., ll.d., elected 9th February, 1885. 

 "William James Doherty, c.e., elected 9th June, 1879. 

 Eev. Samuel Haughton, m.d., f.e.s., elected 24th February, 1845. 

 Deputy Surgeon-Greneral Henry King, m.a., m.b., elected 9th 



April, 1883. 

 George James Knox, m.a., elected 13th February, 1837, 

 Eev. David Mulcahy, p.p., elected 13th February, 1888. 

 Edward Stamer O'Grady, m.b., m.ch., elected 8th January, 1866. 

 John Frazer O'Eeardon, elected 13th November, 1882. 

 Henry Thomas O'Eeilly, f.s.c.s.i., elected 12th April, 1886. 



The Academy has also lost by death two Honorary Members in the 

 Section of Science : — 



Julius von Sachs, elected 16th March, 1889. 

 James Joseph Sylvester, elected 16th March, 1885. 



And three Honorary Members in the Section of Polite Literature 

 and Antiquities : — 



Sir Edward Augustus Bond, k.c.b., elected 16th March, 1882. 

 Sir Augustus "WoUaston Franks, k.c.b., elected 16th March, 1875. 

 Don Pascual Gayangosy Arce, elected 16th March, 1869. 



"William Archer was born the 6th May, 1827. He was the eldest 

 child of the Eev. Eichard Archer, B.A., Dublin, Yicar of Clonduff, 

 Eathfriland, in the county of Down. He came of an old "Wexford 

 family. His grandfather was "William Archer, of Wexford, and his 

 great-great-grandfather was Henry Archer, of Eoss. In the early 

 forties Archer obtained a Bank appointment in Dublin, where, on his 

 father's death, in October, 1849, the family settled. There seems no 

 doubt that most of Archer's youth was spent in the pleasant and pic- 

 turesque country about Eathfriland, Hilltown, and Eostrevor ; on his 

 taking up his residence in Dublin, he began to work at microscopic forms 



