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Lord Enniskillen never published any particulars of, or described 

 any species of Fossil Fishes, but the Florence Court MS. catalogue 

 was kept with the most scrupulous care, every specimen being 

 recorded with all details essential to the zoological position, strati- 

 graphical and geographical history of the species in so great a 

 collection ; and this was carried out in every detail. 



This applied not only to the Florence Court catalogue, but also to 

 the almost duplicate volume of the Oulton Park Collection, kept with 

 the same care by Sir Philip Egerton; so that the enumeration of 

 species contained in one, without reference to the other, would be 

 incomplete and unsatisfactory. 



Lord Enniskillen paid considerable attention to Archaeology, 

 especially that relating to Ireland, and was one of the first to call 

 attention to the lake dwellings in that country. 



Lord Enniskillen's public services were great, as also indeed had 

 been those of the long line of his ancestors through nine generations, 

 ever since their settlement in Ireland in the year 1612, He sat as 

 M.P. for Fermanagh from the year 1831 to 1840 ; was Colonel of the 

 Fermanagh Militia from 1831 to 1875, and Hon. Colonel from 1875, 

 and for more than fifty years leading member of the Orange Society, 

 Grand Master of the County of Fermanagh, Grand Master of Ireland, 

 and Imperial Grand Master, He was also one of the Trustees of the 

 Hunterian Museum. He received the honorary degree of D.C.L. 

 from the University of Oxford, and that of LL.D. from the University 

 of Dublin and the University of Durham. 



Lord Enniskillen was elected F.R.S. in the year 1829, and was 

 thus a Fellow of our Society for fifty-seven years. 



R. E. 



Thomas Andrews was born at Belfast on the 19th December, 1813. 

 His father was a linen merchant in good position. He received his 

 early education at the Belfast Academy and at the Royal Academical 

 Institution of Belfast. He then went to Glasgow to study chemistry 

 under Professor Thomas Thomson, whose laboratory was then one of 

 the very few places in this country where systematic instruction in 

 real chemistry was regularly given to students. He continued his 

 studies in Trinity College, Dublin, where he distinguished himself 

 both in Science and in Classics; and, after spending some time in 

 Dumas' laboratory in Paris, went to Edinburgh, where he took the 

 degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1835. Returning to Belfast, he 

 devoted himself to the practice of medicine, in which he was very 

 successful. In 1845 he was the first Lecturer on Chemistry in the 

 Royal Belfast Academical Institution, but held this office for a short 

 time only. In 1845 the Queen's Colleges were founded and Andrews 

 was appointed Vice-President of the Belfast College. With this office 



