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When the Treasurer entered on his office in the month of June last, 

 the debts and other liabilities of the Academy amounted to £250. By- 

 systematic efforts for the reduction of expenditure, he has been enabled 

 to bring the financial affairs of the Academy into such a state that, at 

 the close of the year, it will be almost, if not altogether, free from debt ; 

 and he has succeeded in doing so without having recourse to the sale of 

 any part of the funded property of the Academy. To effect this object, 

 it was necessary to diminish the expenses of publication, especially by 

 withdrawing, for the present, some papers intended to be printed in the 

 " Transactions" — a necessity which is now happily removed by the in- 

 crease of our grant. The Treasurer has also reorganized the entire system 

 of accounts, and this without imposing on the Academy any additional 

 expense. 



"We have lost by death within the year five Honorary Members, 

 viz. : — 



1. August Boeckh. 



2. Franz Bopp. 



3. Sir David Brewster, K.H., LL.D., F.R.S., &o. 



4. Sir James South, Knt., F. R. S., &c. 



5. Lord Wrottesley. 



We have also lost nine Ordinary Members, viz. : — 



1. John Anster, Esq., LL.D.; elected February 12, 1838. 



2. W. E. Bolton, Esq. ; elected November 30, 1836. 



3. Francis Codd, Esq.; elected May 12, 1851. 



4. Bight Hon. Francis Blackburne, LL. D., Lord High Chancel- 



lor of Ireland; elected January 8, 1855. 



5. Charles Hanlon, Esq.; elected June 10, 1844. 



6. Samuel Hannah, M.D. ; elected April 13, 1840. 



7. George Meyler, Esq. ; elected June 11, 1860. 



8. Thomas Richardson, M. D. ; elected January 12, 1863. 



9. Right Hon. The Earl of Rosse, F. R. S., LL. D ; elected October 



22, 1822. 



Two of these names are highly distinguished in the fields of litera- 

 ture and science respectively. 



Dr. Anster will long be remembered as the author of what is now, 

 by the general verdict of competent judges, acknowledged to be the 

 best English translation of the " Faust" of Goethe. He was born in 

 1798, and educated in Trinity College, where he obtained a Scholarship. 

 In 1817 he published a prize poem on the "Death of the Princess 

 Charlotte ;" and in 1819, " Poems, with Translations from the German." 

 After having contributed tc " Blackwood's Magazine" some specimens 

 of his translation of " Faust," he published the entire First Part 

 in 1835. In 1837 appeared a volume of minor poetical pieces, to 

 which he gave the title of " Xeniola." The translation of the Second 



