68 Royal Irish Academy. 



4. Robert Galloway. 



5. John Kane. 



6. Joseph A. Beatty. 



7. William J. Corbet. 



8. Eev. William A. Eeynell, B. D. 



9. George D. Blake. 



10. James G. Beaney, M. D. 



11. Austin Meldon, M. D. 



"We have lost by death within the year one Honorary Member m, 

 the department of Polite Literature and Antiquities, yiz : — 



Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy, 



and fourteen Ordinary Members, viz. : — 



1. John Barker, M.D., elected April 14, 1851. 



2. Henry M. E. Crofton, elected January 24, 1857. 



3. Sir E. Griffith, Bart., elected April 26, 1819. 



4. Wrigley Grimshaw, F.E.C.S.I., elected January 10, 1842. 



5. Thomas Grubb, F.E.S., elected January 14, 1839. 



6. W. H. Hardinge, elected April 8, 1850. 



7. Earl of Leitrim, elected November 13, 1876. 



8. Eev. George Longfield, D.D., elected Eebruary 10, 1845.. 



9. Francis Kolan, elected June 24, 1872. 



10. Thomas .Oldham, LL.D., E.E.S., elected June 10, 1844. 



11. William Harvey Pim, elected January 13, 1851. 



12. Eev. Thomas H. Porter, D.D., elected April 25, 1836. 



13. O'Xeal Segrave, elected Eebruary 14, 1848. 



14. Colonel E. K. Tenison, elected January 12, 1846. 



Of the honoured name of Sir Eichard Griffith, of vrhich Ireland is 

 justly proud, we make only a passing mention, as the Academy was 

 not the medium through which his scientific labours were made 

 known to the public. 



Of those whose activity was more directly connected with the 

 Academy, we cannot omit some notice of the following men, eminent 

 in their respective walks of science and literature : — 



Thomas Oldham, LL.D., was born in Dublin in 1816. After 

 obtaining his degree of B.A. in the University of Dublin, he studied 



