SESSION, 1868-69. 
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, November 5, 1868. 
RoyAu Irish ACADEMY HousE, DAWSON-STREET. 
Ropert CatiweE tt, Esq., M.R.I.A., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Tue Minutes of the preceding Meeting, being those of the concluding 
Meeting of the last Session, were read and confirmed. 
The Ballot was then opened for the President, Vice-Presidents, 
Council, and Officers for the ensuing year. 
Mr. Arcuer, one of the Honorary Secretaries, then read the follow- 
ing Report from the retiring Council :— 
“With the revolution of another year, as heretofore, it devolves on 
your outgoing Council to say a few words on the condition and doings 
of the Society, previous to relinquishing the trust which they have held, 
and previous to its being again confided to the Council for the coming 
Session; and in so doing a few words will suffice, so uniform is the cur- 
rent of the Society’s affairs. The numerical strength of the Society has 
suffered a diminution last Session, inasmuch as but five ordinary and 
two Corresponding Members were added, whilst the retirements of ordi- 
nary Members have been seven. The Society has to lament the loss of 
three of its Members by death; these were—Mr. F. Codd, Admiral T. 
Jones, and Captain Norton. Of these, Mr. Codd and Captain Norton, 
though well known and respected in many circles, seldom visited our 
Meetings, but by their patronage and support they lent a welcome 
assistance to our Society. Of the late Admiral Jones, a brief biogra- 
phical memoir, by Dr. D. Moore, has been already brought before the 
Society ; and your Council cannot but take this opportunity in this 
Report to express their sense of the loss to science and to this Society 
by the removal of this most amiable gentleman, as well as ardent and 
accomplished cultivator of the botanical field. 
‘Admiral Jones’s very valuable gift to this Society of five large 
fasciculi of Irish Lichens, not to speak of his very extensive general 
collection, will ever remain a monument of his industry, and a memento 
of the good will to this Society of one who, worthy of the highest rank 
in the scientific world, sought neither gain nor fame from his labours ; 
of one who was richly endowed with those qualities which well befit a 
naturalist—patience, industry, energy, ardour, truthfulness, self-devo- 
tion, single-mindedness. 
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