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!M!oxDAT Etexixo, Apeil 10, 1876, 



Sm EoB-EET XiJ^^E, LL. D., F. E. S., Yice-Presiclent, in tlie Chair. 



Michael F. Coxe, II. D., Francis E. Clarke, M. D., Eev. John 

 Grainger, D. D., Eev. "William M'llwaine, D. D., "Walter Myers, Esq., 

 and G. Gerald Tyrrell, Esq., were balloted for and declared duly elected 

 Members of the Academy. 



Letters ■were read by the Secretary from Miss M. Stokes, Thomas 

 Carlyle, Ernst Haeckel, C. "Wilh. Borchardt, and Alphonse DecandoUe, 

 thanking the Academy for the honor conferred on them in electing 

 them as Honorary Members. 



" 5, Meeeiox-sqtjake, IN"., Dubitx, 

 ''2oth March, 1876. 



''SlE, 



" I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your kind letter, conveying 

 to me the intelKgence that the Academy has done me the favoxu- of 

 electing me an Honorary Member of their body. 



''It is needless for me to add how deeply sensible I feel of the 



high honour thus extended to me, and how gratified I am for the 



spirit of kindness which prompted this act. Pray convey to the 



Members of the Eoyal Irish Academy the expression of my deep 



obligation and assurance that I shall continue to make any effoi-t in 



my power to help forward the cause in which they have been so good 



as to enlist me. 



''I beg to remain, 



" Toiu's faithfuUy, 



"3iIaegaeei Stokes. 

 ''Dk. E. P. Weight." 



" Jen-a, 

 ''Den iAjm'I, 1876. 



" HOCHGEEBIETEE HeEE ! 



"Die Eoyal Irish Academy hat in ihrer Sitzung vom 16 Marz mir 

 die hohe Ehre erwiesen, mich zu ihrem Ehrenmitgliede zu emennen. 

 "Wenn auch meine bisherigen Bemiihungen um die Porderung der 

 AVissenschaft nicht ausreichend warcn, um diese hochst ehrenvolle 

 Auszeichnung zu verdienen, so soil mir dieselbe ein neuer Sporn und 

 Antrieb sein, mich ihrer wiirdig zu machen und alle meine Krafte im 



