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in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science (vol. ix., n. s.), 

 " On Fresh-water Rhizopods, new or little known," and culminated 

 in his splendid Memoir, published in our own Proceedings (vol. ii,, 

 ser. 2, Science); "On CJdamydomyxa lahyrinthuloides, nov. gen. et 

 spec, a new fresh- water Sarcodic Organism." The beautiful illus- 

 trations to these memoirs are all from Archer's original drawings, 

 which he elaborated with a delicacy of touch that left it difficult to 

 reproduce them. The period of Archer's life in which he made and 

 published these brilliant researches was that in which he had most 

 leisure, and in which he was freest from the ordinary cares of life. 

 Days were spent by the flooded grounds near the Westmeath lakes, or 

 in Connemara, or on the shores of Bantry Bay, and such excursions 

 were ever attended by fresh discoveries; but in 1876 his whole time 

 was devoted to his library work. Gradually the combined factors 

 of increasing work and increasing years became too onerous for him, 

 and for some years before his death his once favourite pursuits 

 were completely abandoned. 



The Eoyal Society's Catalogue of Scientific Papers enumerates 59 

 of his memoirs. 



Eev. Joseph Carson, D.D., had a long and distinguished career in 

 Triaity College. He obtained a Scholarship in 1833 and a Fellow- 

 ship in 1837, and was co-opted as a Senior Fellow in 1866. In 1878 

 he was elected to the Professorship of Hebrew, and became Vice- 

 Provost in 1890. He was an active and zealous member of his Uni- 

 versity, and faithfully served its interests. His counsel was always 

 valued, and he had in particular a high reputation for ability as a 

 financial administrator. Having become a member of this Academy 

 in 1838, he was elected a member of Council in 1857, and Treasurer 

 the same year ; this office he continued to hold during the ten follow- 

 ing years. 



By the death of Dr. Samuel Haughton, on October 31st, 1897, 

 the Academy has lost one of its most highly valued Members ; one, 

 moreover, of the oldest, as he joined on February 25th, 1845, now 

 fifty-three years ago. His family belonged to the Society of 

 Friends, and were natives of Carlow, in which town he was 

 born in 1821. He displayed very early the intellectual abilities 



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