Report of the Council [continued]. 
ciii 
in the Eoyal Society's Catalogue of scientific papers. He was presi- 
dent of section D at the first Belfast Meeting of the British Association 
in 1852, and was the author of some valuable reports furnished at the 
desire of the association. 
Dr. EoBERT W. Smith was educated in the University of Dublin, 
and took the degree of A. B. in 1828. He became in 1838 Licentiate 
of the Eoyal College of Surgeons, obtained the degree of M. D. in 
1842; and became Fellow of the College of Surgeons in 1844. It 
was in the Eichmond Hospital that his first labours were carried on, 
and the creating of the large and valuable museum of that institution 
was principally due to his indefatigable energy. In 1849 he was made 
Professor of Surgery in the University of Dublin, an office which he 
filled with efficiency and distinction till his death. He was an 
enthusiastic and eloquent teacher^ and his lectures are rendered 
peculiarly valuable, as well as attractive, by the fine collection of 
drawings and preparations which were used to illustrate them, 
which has fortunately been secured by the liberality of the Board 
of Trinity College, for the use of his successors in the chair of 
surgery, and for the advancement of medical studies in Dublin. 
Dr. Smith founded, in 1838, in conjunction with Dr. Stokes, the 
Pathological Society of Dublin, of which he was appointed first secre- 
tary, a post which he held for thirty-five years. He was the author 
of several classical treatises on surgical Patholog}^, which are equally 
remarkable for the merit of their substance and tiie excellence of their 
style, and which will always hold a high place in the literature of the 
jDrofession. Of these may be mentioned his " Fractures and Disloca- 
tions," published in 1847, and his Treatise on T^euroma," which ap- 
peared in 1849. Dr. Smith was vice-president and president elect of 
the Eoyal College of Surgeons. He was a member of council of the 
Eoyal Irish Academy, from 1859 to 1861. 
The following Ordinary Members have been elected since the 16tli 
of March, 1873: — 
1. Michael A. Boyd, M. D., F. E. C. S. I. 
2. James Frost, Esq. 
3. Alexander Macalister, M. D. 
4. Major-General W. J. Smyth, F. E. S. 
5. Thomas Wilkinson, Esq. 
6. Eight Hon. Chichester Fortescue, (now Lord Carlingford).. 
7. William H. Warren, M. D. 
8. Edward Cecil Guinness, M. A. 
9. Eobert Eomney Kane, M. A. 
10. Williaui Gray, Esq. 
11. John C. Malet, M. A. 
12. Eev. Edmund M'Ciure, A. B. 
13. Henry Burden, M. D. 
14. Eev. Nicholas Foster. 
15. Eichard Moss, Esq. 
