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James Fitzgerald Lombard, elected April 12, 1875. 



John Christian Malet, m.a., f.e.s., elected February 9, 1874. 



Charles Joseph O'Donel, elected January 14, 1 867. 



Brian O'Looney, elected April 10, 1871. 

 By the death of John Christian Malet the Academy has lost one of 

 its most accomplished Mathematicians. Mr. Malet was a son of the 

 late Rev. John Adam Malet, Senior Fellow and Librarian of Trinity 

 College, Dublin, in which College he himself also had a most 

 distinguished undergraduate course, which he completed in 1869 by 

 obtaining the first Senior Moderatorship and University Studentship 

 in Mathematics. 



His fij-'st paper contributed to the Academy was in 1874, on 

 *' Some Theorems in the Seduction of Hyper-Elliptic Integrals," and 

 in the same year a further paper was read by him on " Certain Sym- 

 metric Functions of an Algebraic Equation," both of which are published 

 in the Transactions, vol. xxv. In 1878 he read three papers "Direct 

 Demonstration of the Properties of the First Negative Pedal of a Central 

 Conic from any point in its plane" : " On a Proof that every Algebraic 

 Equation has a Root," and " On a Certain Sui'face derived from a 

 Quadric," all of which are in vol. xxvt. of the Transactions. In 

 1882 there was also published, in the Transactions, a paper by him 

 on " Certain Definite Integrals," and in that year he was elected a 

 FeUow of the Eoyal Society. In 1885 the Academy conferred upon 

 him the Cunningham Gold Medal for his researches in Elliptic 

 Functions. The remaining papers by him, published by the Academy, 

 were " Greometrical Theorems," in the Transactions, 1886; and in 

 1882, a paper, in the Proceedings, " On the Equation of a Tangent 

 Cone to a Quadric referred to the Axes." In 1880 he was appointed 

 Professor of Mathematics in the Queen's College, Cork, and became a 

 Fellow of the Eoyal University of Ireland in 1882. In 1887 he was 

 appointed an Assistant Commissioner of Intermediate Education, 

 which office he still held at the time of his comparatively early death. 



The Academy has also lost by death three Honorary Members in 

 the Section of Science : — 



Aleksandr Onufrijevio Kovalevskij, elected 16th March, 1900, 

 Baron Adolf Eric de Nordenskjold, elected 16th March, 1884, 

 Peter Guthrie Tait, elected 16th March, 1900; 



