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The Council also regret that in consequence of severe illness, 

 Professor O'Reilly has been obliged to yacate his seat upon the 

 Council and the office of Secretary for Foreign Correspondence. 



The following Members have been elected since the 16th March, 

 1898:— 



Rev. Richard Barry Doyle. 



Philip Herbert Here. 



Rev. James Edward M'Kenna. 



John Moran, m.a., ll.d. 



Henry Pomeroy Truell, m.b., d.l. 



At the Stated Meeting, on the 16th March, 1898 — 



Paul Heinrich Groth, 



Right Hon. Sir John Lubbock, Bart., 



Luigi Cremona, 



were elected Honorary Members in the Section of Science, and 



Friedrich Blass, 

 Antonio Ceriani, 

 Louis Duchesne, 

 Oscar Montelius, 



were elected Honorary Members in the Section of Polite Literature 

 and Antiquities. 



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



George James AUman, f.e.s., elected 10th April, 1843. 



Edmund William Davy, m.d., elected 14th May, 1855. 



Lavens Mathewson Ewart, elected 12th January, 1891. 



Thomas A. Farrell, m.a., elected 8th April, 1867. 



Sir John Thomas Gilbert, ll.d.. Librarian of the Academy, elected 



9th April, 1855. 

 Robert William Lowry, d.l., elected 11th February, 1878. 

 James H. O'Brien, elected 14th June, 1869. 

 Right Hon. Christopher Talbot Redington, d.l., elected 13th April, 



1896. 



Our late Librarian and Vice-President, Sir John T, Gilbert, was 

 the son of John Gilbert, who was Consul for Portugal, in Dublin. He 



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