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after obtaining his degree that he joined our society, on the register 

 of which for 1835 he appears as Thomas Andrews, M.D. He was 

 not yet twenty-two years old, but had been already offered the 

 position of Chemistry professor by both the great Diiblin schools of 

 medicine. He was not long in Belfast before he was appointed the 

 first professor of Chemistry in the newly established Medical 

 College in the Academical Institution, which teaching he combined 

 with a growing private practice, and in spite of the claims of both 

 upon his time, managed, as I have already said, to do much 

 splendid work. It is almost forgotten now that there ever was 

 such a collegiate department in the Institution, as it was closed 

 when the Queen's College was opened in 1849. The year after his 

 appointment in Belfast he spent a vacation in Paris, renewing his 

 acquaintance with M. Dumas, and making that of M. Chevreul, 

 M. Berthier, and M. Gay Lussac. In this visit he had much 

 pleasure in the company of the great physicist Thomas Graham, 

 and the latter was the means of introducing Andrews to the 

 notice of many of the men who made Paris of the day so famous. 

 To Graham he owed also his introduction to Faraday, beginning 

 a very close friendship which ended only with Faraday's death. 

 Andrews had even thus early begun his series of experiments on 

 the electrical relations of elements-and compounds, and took the 

 opportunity of this visit to purchase some of the latest and most 

 accurate instruments. Recognition soon came to him. In 1839 

 he was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and he 

 Avas one of the original members of the Chemical Society in 1841. 

 It was in 1842 that he married, his wife being a grand -daughter 

 of Adam Johnston of Glynn, who was Andrews' own great grand- 

 father. I am glad to remind you that among our members the 

 family of my old master is still well represented, and we all know 

 Miss E. Andrews as an active investigator into the antiquities 

 and folk lore of our Province. 



Andrews received the Royal Medal in 1844 for one of his 

 investigations upon the heat developed in chemical combination. 

 In 1845 he was invited to offer himself for the vacant chair of 



