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by you and our late President, Dr. Todd, as secretaries of the Irish 

 Archaeological and Celtic Society, it is mainly owing that the latter 

 body has been, for many years past, enabled to continue its labours in 

 publishing various works of the utmost importance on the history of 

 Ireland. You have proved your zeal in the cause of Irish history ; you 

 are acquainted with its sources and its materials. We have, therefore, 

 good reason to indulge the hope that you will supply some of its many 

 and acknowledged wants. 



His Excellency the Loud Ltetjtet^ant then made the following re- 

 marks : — 



MR.PKESiDEivrT AND Gentlemen, — I feel sure that I shall command the 

 unanimous ^ssent of the assembly which I have the honour to address, in 

 submitting to them a proposal for requesting the Very Hev. the Dean of 

 the Chapel Eoyal to permit the able, interesting, and instructive Ad- 

 dresses which he has just delivered to be printed. It would be at once 

 beside the purpose, and beyond my power, to travel again over the ground 

 which has been so fully and luminously explored by him. Most of all 

 should I shrink from entering upon the domain of Dr. Lloyd's researches 

 and discoveries. Of a truth, indeed — 



Ne has possim naturae accedere partes, 

 Frigid us obstiterit circum praecordia sanguis. 



It is not possible, I will only say, to hear or think of Dr. Lloyd without 

 being reminded that even the severest studies and loftiest flights of sci- 

 ence seem in his case to be almost effaced by the modest grace and un- 

 assuming virtues of his demeanour, character, and life. "With respect ' 

 to Mr. MaUet, whom I think the Rev. President next touched upon, he 

 seems to be to the earthquake something of what Dr. Eranklin was to the 

 lightning. But though he has been himself able to detect and track its 

 footsteps, I fear he will not be equally enabled to arrest or to intercept 

 its force. The President has eloquently remarked that Mr. Mallet has 

 followed the course of those tremendous breakers which have rolled in 

 upon the trembling shores, even at vast distances from the points where 

 the ocean-bed had been agitated by subterranean commotions. Our lan- 

 guage seems hardly big enough for such magnificent ideas; and if Homer 

 had been alive, he would have called Mr. Mallet Tan^oxo^ evvoc>t'^aio<5. 

 The President, I think, next touched upon Mr. Stokes; and I am 

 sure our worthy President was quite in his element when he dilated 

 on Irish philology ; and most pleasant, indeed, it is to find the son of a 

 father who has himself done so much to lighten suffering and prolong 

 life, showing such a bright promise in the cultivation of those pursuits 

 and humanities which so powerfullj^ contribute to dignify and adorn it. 

 I am sure we shall hail with pleasure the promising career of such a son 

 of such a sire. With respect to Mr. Gilbert, I feel it most gratifying 

 to have our attention directed to so full and accurate a history of the 

 city in which most of the assembly whom I see before me are now liv- 

 ing, in which I myself have spent many eventful, and, I will add, 



