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For these reasons we proposed to the Academy, on the recommen- 
dation of a Committee which had maturely considered the subject, to 
alter the distribution of the Council into Committees, keeping, of 
coiu'se, within the limits prescribed by the Charter. The nature of 
the change consists in the increase of the Committee of Science to the 
number of eleven, and the union of the Committees of Polite Literature 
and Antiquities into one Committee, to consist of ten members. This 
proposition has received the sanction of the Academy ; and a Council, 
constructed on the new plan, will be brought into existence by the 
election at the approaching Stated Meeting. It will, of course, be under- 
stood that nothing is farther from the wish or the intention of the 
Council, than to remove Literary Studies of a suitable character from 
their proper place amongst the objects of the Academy. Such an 
attempt would not only be highly inexpedient, but would be a direct 
violation of oiu' Charter. To the joint Committee of Polite Litera- 
ture and Antiquities will belong — as heretofore to those Committees 
separately — the subjects of Archa3ology, History, and Philology, in 
the widest acceptation of those terms. It is hoped that these great 
studies, which — though in our classifications we distinguish them from 
the sciences strictly so called, are now more than ever based on scien- 
tific principles, and prosecuted according to scientific methods, will 
attract a large share of the intellectual energies of our Members, and 
that there will be found in the Academy cultivators of these branches 
of learning worthy to be the successors of Hincks, Petrie, Todd, O'Do- 
novan, and 0' Curry. 
We have lost by death ten Members within the year : 
1. Alexander B^oyle, Esq., elected 1838. 
2. J. T. R. Colclough, Esq., elected 1854. 
3. Sir Edward Conroy, Bart., elected 1839. 
4. Charles P. Croker, M. D., elected 1834. 
5. J. Beete Jukes, Esq., M. A., E. E. S., elected 1852. 
6. Eev. Edward Marks, D. D., elected 1836. 
7. James Patten, M. D., elected 1841. 
8. Eev. James H. Todd, D. D. (ex-President), elected 1833. 
9. Eev. Eichard H. Wall, D. D., elected 1823. 
10. Eight Hon. John E. Walsh, elected 1855. 
Two of these names it is impossible for us to pass by without special 
notice. 
The many and various labours of Dr. Todd would well deserve to 
be recorded in a detailed biographical narrative. Here we can only 
briefly mention the leading facts of his career , and the services which 
he rendered to this Academy, and to the cause of our national literature. 
Born at Dublin in 1805, he graduated as Bachelor of Arts in Trinity 
College in 1825 ; obtained a Fellowship in 1831 ; was elected Eegius 
Professor of Hebrew in 1849 ; and Librarian in 1852. He became a 
Member of the Academy in 1833 • and from the beginning showed a 
