John Kelts Ingram. 



speech, to describe, with admirable felicity, the history and functions 

 of the Academy, has been already adverted to. In the more formal 

 address which he delivered on November 30th, 1892, he applied 

 himself to the task of providing a complete survey of what the 

 Academy had already accomplished, and of the work that, in his 

 judgment, lay before it. In this address he set forth, with all the 

 charm of consummate knowledge, joined to a complete intellectual 

 sympathy, the functions of the Academy as "a common ground on 

 which Irishmen, otherwise of different views, may meet as friends, 

 for mutual assistance and encouragement in the pursuit of truth, in 

 the cultivation of letters, and in the illustration of our !N"ational 

 Memorials." In the concluding session of his term of office, it 

 fell to him to expound to the Academy, in accordance with a time- 

 honoured custom, the objects of those Cunningham Memoirs — our 

 Memoires Couronnes, as he aptly called them — which had appeared 

 during his Presidency. I'he subjects discussed on that occasion 

 included Professor D. J. Cunningham's " Contribution to the Surface 

 Anatomy of the Cerebral Hemispheres," Dr. Mahaffy's Memoir on 

 the "Flinders Petrie Papyri," and Professor Haddon's on "The 

 Decorative Art of British New Guinea." Those who heard his 

 masterly exposition of the conclusions of these very dissimilar 

 monographs, were left to marvel upon which topic Ingram spoke 

 with greatest authority and ease. 



Though Ingram survived for upwards of ten years after the 

 termination of his period of office as President, failing health forbade 

 his taking any further part in the work of the Academy. But he 

 continued in his retirement to follow its proceedings with a lively 

 interest, and was zealous to the last in encouraging younger men to 

 labour in its service. That his intellectual activity in these last years 

 was, nevertheless, vigorous and sustained, is proved by the series of 

 publications, all belonging to this period, in which he expounded and 

 illustrated the Comtist system, of which he was an earnest adherent. 

 He died at his residence, 38, Upper Mount Street, Dublin, on May 1st, 

 1907, and was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery. His portrait, 

 painted by Miss Sara H. Purser, k.h.a., was presented to the 

 Academy on February 22nd, 1897, in commemoration of his 

 presidency, and provides a faithful memorial of one whose memory 

 will long be cherished by those who enjoyed the privilege of his 



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