SESSION 1867-68. 
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, Tuurspay, November 7, 1867. 
Royau Irish AcADEMyY House, DAWSON-STREET. 
Rozert Cattwett, M. R.1. A., President, in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the preceding Meeting were read and signed. 
The Ballot then opened for the election of Officers and Council for 
the ensuing year. Dr. D. Moore, and the Rev. Thaddeus O’ Mahony, 
having been appointed scrutineers, the following Report from the out- 
going Council was then read :— 
‘Ere formally relinquishing the trust placed in the hands of your 
outgoing Council for the preceding year, annual custom demands that a 
brief Report should be made of the doings and state of the Society ; yet, 
so little has the past year differed from its immediate predecessors, and 
so evenly flows the current of the Society’s affairs, that at each annual 
return of the night inaugurative of a new Session there is little new to 
say—little that is special calling for attention. From Session to Session 
we acquire some new members, lose some old ones, and find ourselves 
still located, thanks to our kind hosts, in this convenient apartment, 
the contributing members doing, meantime, what they can to furnish 
scientific communications, be they the result of their quiet labours, or 
merely passing nutes and records. And so your Council’s Annual 
Reports can be little else than monotonous. 
The gain to the Society by accession of new members has been 
twenty ordinary members, whilst the losses have been seventeen, three 
of which were by death. 
“One of these losses occurred through the death of our valued and 
valuable corresponding member, Frederick J. Foot. The unexpected 
and sudden removal of this estimable man and zealous naturalist, whose 
contributions added highly to the interest of the Society’s meetings on 
many an evening, was caused by an accident, the result of a heroic, but 
to himself fatal, effort to save human life from drowning. This me- 
lancholy event will be fresh in the memory of us all. During the 
severe frost of last winter, whilst skating, the ice gave way, and 
several of Mr. Foot’s fellow-skaters were precipitated below. To their 
assistance our departed friend, who was an excellent skater, hurried, 
and, in the effort to save them, he sank, and was lost himself. It 
would ill become your Council not to place on record their sense of 
the loss which the Society and Science have sustained, and their deep 
regret at the untimely and sudden demise of so esteemed a man. 
‘‘ The record of work done, as evidenced by the number of papers and 
communications brought forward, by no means falls short of that of pre- 
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