220 Royal Irish Academy. 



4. F. H. Houston, f.e.g.s.i. 



5. J. F. O'Eeardon. 



6. T. Greer, m.p. 



7. J. F. Knott, F.R.c.s.i. 



8. T. H. Longfield. 



We have lost by death within the year one Honorary Member — 

 Henry John Stephen Smith, f.e.s. 

 And nine Ordinary Members : — 



1. Eight Hon. Lord Castletown of Upper Ossory, elected 



January 13, 1873. 



2. Samuel F. Downing, li.d., elected February 11, 1856, 



3. Gerald Fitz Gibbon, m.a., elected April 12, 1841. 



4. William Digges LaTouche, m.a., elected January 25, 1836. 



5. Denis Florence MacCarthy, elected April 13, 1857. 



6. Eight Hon. Sir Joseph IS'apier, Bart., ll.d,, d.c.l., elected 



February 10, 1840. 



7. Standish G. Eowley, ll.d., elected April 8, 1872. 



8. Evelyn Philip Shirley, m.a., elected January 13, 1873. 



9. Walter Sweetman, j.p., elected February 24, 1845. 



Such a Eeport as this is not the place in which justice can be done 

 to the poetical merits of Mr. D. F. Mac Carthy, which have received 

 ample appreciation in the literary world. Many of his fresh and 

 graceful lyrics live in all our memories ; and his translations of the 

 Plays of Calderon, in which he attempted the diflficult task of repro- 

 ducing in English the Spanish assonant rhyme, have met with a 

 highly favourable judgment from such competent authorities as Long- 

 fellow and Ticknor. The principal events of Mr. Mac Carthy's life, 

 with the titles and dates of his publications, are given in the preface 

 to a very attractive volume, lately published by his son, containing 

 most of his original poems. He contributed to our Proceedings, in 

 1862, a Paper in relation to the MS. of the Memoirs of the Court of 

 Spain, ascribed to the Marquis de Yillars. 



Samuel F. Downing, LL.D., was for many years Professor of Engi- 

 neering in Trinity College. He was the author of Elements of Practical 

 Sydraulics, of which a second edition appeared in 1861, and a third 

 was in preparation at the time of his death. In the Academy's 

 Transactions will be found a Paper of his '' On the Drainage of 

 Haarlem Lake." 



