314 Royal Irish Academy. 



conferred upon him, it may suflB.ce to mention the Cunningliam Gold 

 Medal of the Eoyal Irish Academy, 1873, the Brisbane Gold Medal, 

 Eoyal Society of Edinburgh, 1877, the Eoyal Medal of the Eoyal Society 

 in 1878, the Linnean Gold Medal, 1896. He was President of the 

 British Association in 1879, and of the Linnean Society in 1874, in 

 succession to George Bentham. 



This sketch records but the public work of our late illustrious 

 member. Into other matters it is not necessary to enter further than 

 to add that, with an excellent presence, Allman had a most courteous 

 and winning manner, which made him very attractive in social as well 

 as in his professorial life. He had an immense love of IS^ature ; 

 he never was a closet naturalist; and when his more active career 

 was over, he retired to the companionship of his plants and flowers ; 

 and at his charming abode at Ardmore, Parkstone, Dorsetshire, he 

 passed away on the 24th of IS'ovember, 1898, in the 86th year of his 

 age. 



Edmtj:?™ W. Davy, born at Cork, in July, 1826, was the eldest 

 son of Professor Edmund Davy, E.E.S. At the time of his birth, his 

 father was Professor of Chemistiy in the Cork Eoyal Institution, but 

 shortly afterwards he became Professor of Chemistry to the Eoyal 

 Dublin Society, and his son received his early education in Dr. Flynn's 

 School in^Harcourt- street, from whence he entered Trinity College, 

 taking his B.A. Degree in 1848, that of M.B. in 1849, and of M.D. 

 in 1872. He was for some time assistant to his father at the Eoyal 

 Dublin Society, and after his death in 1857, he was elected his suc- 

 cessor. On the establishment of the Eoyal College of Science in 

 Dublin in 1867, Davy was transferred to it as Professor of Agri- 

 culture, which post he held until, in 1877, it was thought expedient 

 to abolish the Chair. He also held the Chair of Medical Jurisprudence 

 in the School of the Eoyal College of Surgeons, Ireland. He was 

 elected a member of this Academy in 1855, and was a frequent con- 

 tributor of papers to our meetings, one of which, written in concert 

 with Sir Charles Cameron, " On some hitherto undescribed Com- 

 pounds of Selenium," was published in our Transactions (vol. xxviii., 

 part 8). 



The Eeport was adopted. 



