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Dr. Haughton was a man of very remarkable personality and of 

 unusual versatility of powers, as shown not only by his activity in so 

 many diverse lines of science, but also by his efficiency as a man of 

 affairs, and, we may now add, by the interest evinced by him in 

 certain lines of literature. His brightness and hopefulness contri- 

 buted largely to carrying him successfully through many of his under- 

 takings. He was always ready to show generous encouragement to 

 younger students in science who were carefully doing their best. IKs 

 social qualities and lively humour made him always welcome to his 

 friends ; while those who were more intimate with him could prize 

 the deeper moral qualities which underlay those by which he was 

 recommended to outsiders. 



His merits were widely recognized outside of Ireland. He was 

 elected Fellow of the Eoyal Society of London in 1858. The Univer- 

 sity of Oxford conferred on him the degree of D.C.L. in 1868, and 

 the Universities of Cambridge and of Edinburgh that of LL.D., in 

 1880 and 1884, respectively ; and the University of Eologna that of 

 M.D. in 1888 : all honoris causa. 



[Appendix.] 



Copy of Memorial referred to in the above Eeport : — 



To His Excellency Geobge Henky, Eakl Cadogan, e.g.. Lord 

 Lieutenant General and General Governor of Ireland. 



The Memoeial op the Council oe the Eoyal Ikish Academy 



Showeth that — 



1. The Eoyal Ieish Academy was incorporated in 1786, by 

 Charter of the 28th January, in the 26th year of George III., for the 

 promotion of Science, Polite Literature, and Antiquities. 



2. Since the period of its foundation, the Academy has applied 

 itself earnestly to the advancement of these studies, and in the depart- 

 ment of Antiquities it has specially devoted itself to the Antiquities 

 of Ireland. 



3. Owing to the constant exertions of the Academy so many 



