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talent for acquiring friends. As we have said, he was singularly 

 unselfish, for if his friends had any fault to find in him it was 

 his little care of his own material interests : he was perfectly 

 transparent and sincere, and absolutely loyal. Thus he kept all 

 the friends he made, and no one was more successful in gaining 

 new ones. He was one of the most charming of companions, over- 

 -h 1 owing with wit and humour, ready to take a lively part in any 

 discussion, and able from a well-stored memory to relate many 

 results of a much varied experience. And those who were attracted 

 by his social qualities found, as they came to know him better, that 

 he possessed those sterling qualities on which the solid foundations 

 of friendship can be laid. He used to be a regular attendant at 

 the meetings of the British Association, the chief use of which 

 is the bringing of men of kindred pursuits together. There he 

 formed valuable friendships with scientific men, of whom it may be 

 enoug'h to name Tyndall, who came from the same part of Ireland, 

 and Huxley, with whom, though they were widely apart on their 

 theological views, he always maintained a cordial and intimate 

 friendship. His medical friends outside Ireland are too numerous 

 to be mentioned, but he used frequently to speak of Acland of 

 Oxford, Sir William Turner, Sir John Simon, and Sir Richard 

 Quain. It is needless to say how his loss is felt by those with w^hom 

 he was in the habit of daily working, and it may in truth be said 

 that no man has left a wider circle of sorrowing friends. 



He received many honours during his life. Only a few of these 

 need be alluded to here. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal 

 Society in 1858. He received the degree of D.C.L. CHon. causa) of 

 Oxford in 1868 ; the degree of LL.D. (Hon. causa) of Cambridge in 

 1880; the degree of LL.D. (Hon. causa) of Edinburgh in 1884 ; the 

 degree of M.D. (Hon. causa) of Bologna in 1888. 



It is impossible to give in the space at our disposal anything like 

 a proper conception of the published work of Dr. Haughton. Few 

 men had a greater multiplicity of interests, and although it is prob- 

 able that if he had been more of a specialist he would have left 

 behind him a larger amount of work of permanent value on some 

 one subject, yet his many-sidedness pre-eminently fitted him for the 

 place he filled in the government of a large educational institution. 

 In the Royal Society Catalogue 173 memoirs and papers are entered 

 under his name, and this only takes his work down to 1883. The 

 majority of these were published in the ' Proceedings of the Royal 

 Irish Academy,' of which he was a member for fifty-two years, and 

 of which he lived to become the President. 



Some idea of his amazing versatility may be gained by a glance 

 through the titles of his papers as they are given in the Royal 

 Society's Catalogues. The following is a small selection from these : — 



