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8. E. W. Lowry, B.A. 



9. M. O'Hanlon, M. D. 



'^e have lost by deatli -svithin the year seven Honorary ITem- 

 liers : — 



In the department of Science : — 



1 . TJrbain Jean Joseph Leverrier. 



2. Henri Victor Eegnanlt. 



3. Padre Angelo Secchi. 



In the department of Polite Literature and Antiquities : — 



1 . John Lothrop llotley, 



2. John Stuart, 



3. Augusto SoromenhOj 



4. Louis Adolphe Thiers, 



and eleven Ordinary !3Iembers, viz. : — 



1. C. iS'eville Bagot, elected June 8, 1863.. 



2. Edward Cane, elected February 22, 1836. 



3. Fleetwood ChurchiU, IT. D., elected January 10, 1842. 



4. Eugene A. Conwell, LL. D., elected January 9, 1860. 



5. Denis H. Kelly, elected June 24, 1838. 



6. Thomas E. Kelly, LL.D., elected January 25, 1836. 



7. James C. E. Kenney, elected April 10, 1848. 



8. John Mollan, M. D., elected January 13, 1840. 



9. Thaddeus M. O'Callaghan, C.E., elected January 11, 1876. 



10. "William Stokes, M. D., elected jS^vember 29, 1834. 



11. Henry Wilson, E. E. C. S. I., elected January 8, 1866. 



Amongst these names, that of William Stokes naturally takes the 

 foremost place. He was bom in Dublin in the year 1804. He belonged 

 to a family in which, as has been well said, " genius is hereditary." 

 His father, Dr. Whitley Stokes, was a man of great ability and origi- 

 nality of intellect ; and his honesty and independence of character 

 were shown by his resignation, for conscientious reasons, of his Senior 

 Eellowship in Trinity College. On his retirement from that office, he 

 was appointed Lecturer in JSTatural History — a post which he filled 

 till he became Eegius Professor of Physic in 1830, With his scientific 



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