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THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. 



1840. No. 25. 



November 9. 



SIR Wm. R. HAMILTON, LL.D., President, in the Chair. 



The President read a letter from the Secretary of State 

 for the Home Department, informing him that her Majesty 

 had been pleased to receive very graciously the address of 

 the President, Council, and Members of the Royal Irish 

 Academy, congratulating her Majesty on the recent provi- 

 dential deliverance of herself and her illustrious Consort. 



The decease of the Very Rev. the Dean of St. Patrick's, 

 V.P., having been announced to the Academy, it was re- 

 solved — 



That we have heard with deep regret of the death of 

 our valued Vice-President, the Dean of St. Patrick's ; and 

 that while we sympathize with all classes of our fellow- 

 citizens, in lamenting the removal of one so universally be- 

 loved and esteemed, we would desire to record our sense of 

 the peculiar loss sustained by the Academy, in being de- 

 prived of the assistance of one who could estimate the value 

 of our Institution, and give to it his most cordial coopera- 

 tion ; one who found leisure from the multifarious duties of 



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