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India,' gives a record of his travels and summarizes the results of 

 his numerous papers. This work was followed by an elaborate 

 treatise on the economic geology of India. His scientific reputation 

 had by this time become so firmly established that, on the resigna- 

 tion of the Chair of Geology in the University of Dublin by the 

 Rev. Dr. Haughton, Valentine Ball was appointed his successor. 

 Thus was brought to a close his connexion of seventeen years with 

 the Geological Survey of India. 



In 1882 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 

 September 1883, Ball was appointed Director of the Science and 

 Art Museum in Dublin, and resigned his Professorship in the 

 University for the coveted post of Custodian of the new Museum, 

 which he so ably and admirably organized, and to which he devoted 

 the remainder of his life with unsparing energy and zeal. 



Though his death was premature, yet it may be said that he had 

 lived long enough to see the substantial completion of his life's 

 task, the arrangement of the new Museum, which will long remain 

 as a testimony to his work. 



The University of Dublin conferred on him the honorary degree 

 of Doctor of Laws, and by Her Majesty he was made a Companion 

 of the Bath. With most of the scientific societies of Dublin 

 Dr. Y. Ball was in intimate association. 



In 1879, he married the eldest daughter of the late John Stewart 

 Moore, of Moyarget, Co. Antrim. He leaves a family of four young 

 children. For some years Dr. Ball's health had been failing. 

 Towards the middle of June serious symptoms became apparent, 

 and he passed away peacefully on the afternoon of June 15th at his 

 residence, 28 Waterloo Road, Dublin. 



The only communications which Valentine Ball made to the 

 Geological Society were ' On the probable Mode of Transport of the 

 Fragments of Granite and other Rocks which are found embedded 

 in the Carboniferous Limestone of the neighbourhood of Dublin,' 

 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xliv. (1888) p. 371 ; and ' On some 

 Eroded Agate-pebbles from the Soudan,' Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 

 vol. xliv. (1888) p. 368. 



In the Right Hon. Thomas Henry Huxley, this Society has lost 

 one of its most distinguished Fellows, and the world of science one 

 of its brightest ornaments. 



He was elected a Fellow in 1856, was placed upon the Council in 

 1858, and in the same year was chosen to be one of the Secretaries, 



