485 



To represent the total amount of these compositions, viz., £3347 8s., 

 the Academy have to their credit in 3 per cent, consols, only £1201 

 18s. 10c?., leaving a balance due to the Life Composition Eund of more 

 than £2000. 



The Academy has lost by death during the past year two Honorary 

 Members, William Yrolik, and Sir W. E. Parry, and fourteen Ordinary 

 Members, viz. : — 



1. Eev. James Kennedy Bailie, D. D.; elected January 26, 1818. 



2. Sir Eobeet Bateson, Bart.; elected April 24, 1809. 



3. Beeiah Botfield, Esq., E. E. S. ; elected April 12, 1841. 



4. Ex. Hon. Eeancis W., Eael oe Chaelemont ; elected Decem- 

 ber 28th, 1793. 



5. EnwAED J. Coopee, Esq., E.E. S. ; elected Eebruary 27, 1832. 

 - 6. Most Eev. Eichaed Whately, Lord Archbishop of Dublin ; 



elected January 27, 1834. 



7. Daniel Geifein, M. D. ; elected January 13, 1851. 



8. Et. Hon. John S. E., Viscount Massaeeene and Eeeeaed ; 

 elected August 24, 1857. 



9. Cheistophee MooEE, Esq.; elected January 14, 1850. 



10. Jonathan Osboene, M. D. ; elected June 10, 1839. 



11. Hon. and Yeey Eev. Heney Pakenham, Dean of St. Patrick's, 

 Dublin; elected April 10, 1843. 



12. Majoe-Geneeal J. E. Poetlock, E.E. S. ; elected May 24, 1830. 



13. EoBEET Eeid, M.D. ; elected Eebruary 24, 1834. 



14. Geoe&e Eoe, Esq., D.L. ; elected January 12, 1852. 



Several of these are distinguished names ; five of their number meet 

 us in the records of the scientific, literary, or antiquarian labours of the 

 Academy : — 



1. The Eev. James Kennedy Bailie, D.D., was rector of the parish 

 of Ardtrea, to which he was presented in 1 830, by Trinity College, 

 having previously been a Junior Eellow of that college. He was dis- 

 tinguished as a Greek scholar, and published two different editions of 

 the Hiad of Homer, one with Latin notes and Excursus in 1821-3 ; the 

 other with English notes, for school and college nse, in 1833. He was 

 also the author of " Lectures on the Philosophy of the Mosaic Eecord of 

 the Creation," published in 1826 ; and of " Prelections on the Language 

 and Literature of Ancient Greece," published in 1834. He contributed 

 to the nineteenth and twenty-first volumes of our ''Transactions" a " Me- 

 moir of Eesearches amongst the Inscribed Monuments of the Greco- 

 Eoman Era, in certain Ancient Sites of Asia Minor ;" and to the twenty- 

 second volume, a Memoir on two Medallion Busts preserved in the manu- 

 script room of the library of Trinity College, Dublin. 



2. Edward Joshua Cooper, Esq., was well known as an able practical 

 astronomer, and as the proprietor and director of theMarkree Observatory. 

 He contributed to our " Proceedings" a considerable number of papers; 

 " On the Zodiacal Light," in vol. iii. ; " On Comets," in vols. iii. and v. ; 



On Observations with his Transit Circle," and " OnLeverrier's Planet," 



