1905. 



Joseph Patrick OReilly. 



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1886 to 1889 and from 1901 to 1904. The gap in his service 

 on the Council, which covers a period of twentj^-three years, 

 v^as occasioned by the illness above referred to. He was 

 President of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland in 1885. 



Up to the last, O'Reilly's active mind was directed to papers 

 which he was preparing for presentation to the Academy ; and 

 when death removed him suddenly on 6th January, 1905, he 

 was practically still at work on a favourite subject in Irish 

 archaeology. 



BIBI^IOGRAPHY. 



{Note. — The date in the margin is that of the year in which the paper 

 or papers were read. The first five papers and the seventh were written 

 in conjunction with the late Dr. Wilham K. SulUvan.) 



1861. On the Hydrocarbonates and SiHcates of Zinc of the Province of 

 Santander, Spain. Proc, R.I. A., viii., 5-25, 1861-64. 



1863. Note on the Chemical Composition of a Lacustrine Dolomitic Lime- 



stone from the neighbourhood of Madrid. Atlatitis, iv., 315-18, 

 1863. 



Notes illustrative of the Geology and Mineralogy of the part of the 

 Spanish Province of Santander between the Bay of Santander 

 and the River Deva. Allantis, iv., 319 /147, 1863. 



On the Deposit of Sulphate of Soda in the Valley of the Jarama, 

 near Aranjuez, in Spain. Atlantis, iv., 283-315, 1863. 



1864. Die Zinkerze in der Spanischen Provinz Santander. Neues Jahrb. 



fur Mineral, 1864, 849-850. 



1870. Note on a New Method of disposing the Barometric Column, so as 



to furnish directly enlarged indications without the intermediary 

 of a system of transmission of movement. Proc. R.I. A. (2), i., 

 31-36, 1870-74. 



1871. Note on the great Dolomite bed of the North of Spain, in connec- 



tion with the Tithonian Stage of Herr Oppel. Proc. R.I.A. (2), 

 i., 225-232, 1870-4. 



1872. On a new form of Goniometer. Proc. R.I.A. (2)., i., 294-296, 1870-74. 

 Extract from report to the Council of the Royal College of Science, 



Dublin, on a visit of study to Cornwall, Paris, and Amiens [on 

 Peat]. Dublin, 1872. 



1877. On the Meteor of Friday, the 6th of April, 1877. Proc. R.I.A. (2), 



iii., 87-88, 1877-83. 



1878, On the Correlation of Lines of Direction on the Globe, and par- 



ticularly of Coast Lines. Brit. Assoc. Rep. (Sections), 1878, 574. 

 Trafis. R.I.A., xxvi., 611-640, 1876-79. 

 Explanatory Notes and Discussion of the Nature of the Prismatic 

 Forms of a group of Columnar Basalts, Giant's Causeway. Trans. 

 R.I.A., xxvi., 641-734, 1876-79. 



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