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MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1866. 

 The Vert Bey. Charles Graves, D. D., President, in the Chair. 



The Eev. B. W. Adams, D. D. ; Rev. Thomas D. F. Barry ; George 

 Satchel, M. D. ; Edward S. 0' Grady, Esq. ; Daniel 0' Sullivan, Esq. ; 

 Joseph O'Kelly, A. M. ; Henry Wilson, M. B. C. S. I. ; and Bev. Bichard 

 "Wrightson, B. A. ; were elected members of the Academy. 



Dr. E. Perceval Wright read a paper, the joint production of himself 

 and Professor Huxley, " On the Eossil Bemains of some large Batra- 

 chian Bep tiles from the Irish Coal-measures." Part I. 



MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1866. 

 The Yery Bev. Charles Graves, D. D., President, in the Chair. 



The President stated that in consequence of the lamented death of 

 Dr. Petrie, and out of respect to his memory, no literary communica- 

 tions would he made this evening. 



The Academy accordingly adjourned. 



MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1866. 



The Very Bev. Charles Graves, D. D., President, in the Chair. 



The President delivered the following Address on the loss sustained 

 by Archaeological Science in the Death of George Petrie, LL. D. : — 



Address. 



Gentlemen, — Only a few weeks have passed since I was called on to 

 express our sense of the loss sustained by the Academy — by Science it- 

 self — in the death of Sir "William Bo wan Hamilton. If any one of us 

 had been asked, a year ago, to enumerate the great men of our own 

 country and our own time, he would have been almost sure to give pre- 

 cedence to the name of Hamilton. And now, whilst our mourning for 

 him is recent, before we have accustomed ourselves to the thought that 

 he is no longer a fellow-labourer with us, that he has gone to his rest, 

 and that the works which he has left unfinished must be carried on by 

 other hands, death has made a fresh inroad on our ranks, and robbed us 

 of all the pleasure and the pride which we felt in companionship with one 

 who, in the department of antiquarian and historic literature, had at- 

 tained a pre-eminence as decided as that which Hamilton had won for 

 himself in the pursuits of mathematical science. It is hardly possible 

 to exaggerate the gloom which the death of George Petrie has cast 

 over the friends of literature in Ireland ; for his name had become a 

 household word amongst us. His genius and learning had rendered 

 him famous ; and the charm of his noble and graceful character had 



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