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ELecrep Frer- 
LOW OF THE So- 
e1etTy or AnNTI- 
QUARIES. 
RESIGN. 
Visir IRELAND 
IN 1754. 
AccOuUNT OF 
soME CORAL- 
Lo1ps, 1756. 
In 1757 ELECTED 
OFTHE R.S. aT 
Upsa.. 
Ore MY) Fe a RA Raa IERIE: 
Havine an inclination to the ftudy of antiquities, I was, on 
November the 21, 1754, eleéted a fellow of the fociety of an- 
tiquaries. : 
Tus honor I refigned about the year 1760. I had married 
a moft amiable woman; my circumftances at that time were 
very narrow, my worthy father being alive, and I vainly thought 
my happinefs would have been permanent, and that I never — 
fhould have been called again from my retirement to amufe 
myfelf in town, or to be.of ufe to the fociety. 
fw the fummer of 1754 I vifited the hofpitable kingdom of 
Freland, and travelled from Dublin to Balli-Caftle, the Giants-Cau/e- 
way, Colraine, the extremity of the county of Donegal; Londor- 
Derry, Strabone, Innis-killen, Galway, Limerick, the lake of Kil- 
larney, Kinfale, Cork, Cafbel, Waterford, Kilkenny, Dublin. But 
fuch was the conviviality of the country, that my journal proved 
as maigre as my entertainment was gras, fo it never was a difh 
fit to be offered to the public. 
In the Philofophical Tranfactions of 1756, vol. xlix. p. 513, 
is a trifling paper of mine, on feveral coralloid bodies, I had 
collected at Coal-brook-dale, in Shropfhire. It is accompanied by 
a plate engraven from fome drawings by Watkin Williams, a 
perfon who at that time was an humble companion of my 
father. 
On February, 1757, I received the firft and greateft of my 
literary honors. I value myfelf the more on its being con- 
ferred on me, at the inftance of Liznzus himfelf, with whom 
{ had began a correfpondence in 1755. I had fent him an 
account of a recent concha anomia, which I found adhering to a 
fea-plant of the Norwegian feas, fent to me by bifhop Ponteppi- 
4 dan. 
