Minutes of Proceedings. 165 



"We have lost by death within the year three Honorary Members — 

 In the Department of Science : — 



1. Michel Chasles. 



2. Carl "Wilhelm Borchardt. 



In the Department of Polite Literature and Antiquities : — - 

 1. Thomas Carlyle. 



And eight Ordinary Members : — 



1. Robert Cryan, m.d., elected June 8, 1874, 



2. James S. Eiffe, f.e.a.s., elected December 11, 1843. 



3. Thomas Gallwey, j.p., elected June 11, 1866. 



4. Anthony Hanagan, elected April 8, 1867. 



5. Alfred Hudson, m.d., elected April 8, 1861. 



6. Eev. H. Lloyd, d.d., elected February 27, 1832. 



7. Michael H. Stapleton, m.d., elected April 13, 1846. 



8. Sir Thomas Tobin, d.l., elected June 14, 1869. 



One of these names demands notice here in an especial degree — • 

 the name of Humphrey Lloyd, late Provost of Trinity College, 

 formerly President of the Royal Irish Academy. 



Of illustrious lineage in the aristocracy of mind (for the name of 

 his father, Bartholomew Lloyd, is inscribed on our rolls as that of one 

 whom the Academy delighted to honour), Humphrey Lloyd has shed 

 on our body the lustre of more brilliant scientific achievement, and 

 earned for himself a wider renown. 



His father was appointed Provost of Trinity College in the same 

 year (1831) in which the -late Provost was elected Professor of 

 Natural Philosophy in the University. Thirty-six years after, in 

 1867, Humphrey Lloyd was admitted Provost, in which distinguished 

 oflB.ce he died, after a brief illness, in his eighty-first year, in the 

 beginning of the present year (January 17, 1881), as universally 

 regretted as he had been highly esteemed. 



His work was nearly coextensive with his oflficial career, for in the 

 very year of his appointment as Professor, 1831, he published his 

 Treatise on Light and Vision; and the third edition of his work On the 

 Wave Theory of Light, together with his Treatise on Magnetism, were 

 published in 1874. It was, in fact, to the problems of physical 

 optics and terrestrial magnetism that his studies were specially 



