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MEMOIR OF THE LATE ROBERT BALL, LL. D. 
their solicitous regard for the feelings of the survivors. They deter¬ 
mined on establishing a “ Memorial Fund” expressly for the benefit of 
his children, and communicated this decision to Mrs. Ball, accompanied 
by expressions of their deep sympathy for her bereavement. 
Among the Minutes passed by different bodies with which Dr. Ball 
had been connected, and which testified in various ways the estimation 
in which he had been held, none was more grateful to his family than 
the following from the Senate of the Queen’s University, and which was 
transmitted in the kindest manner by the Lord Chancellor Brady, Yice- 
Chancellor of the University:— 
“At this, their first meeting since the melancholy event of the 
death of their late Secretary, Dr. Itobert Ball, the members of the Senate 
of the Queen’s University desire to record upon the Minutes of their 
Transactions their deep sense of the loss which the University has sus¬ 
tained in being deprived of the services of a gentleman who was, both 
in his public and private character, so highly valued and esteemed. 
“In the discharge of his duties to the Senate and to the Queen’s 
Colleges, of which it is the head, Dr. Ball displayed the most anxious 
and zealous solicitude for the interest and welfare of those institutions, 
and the most patient attention to every detail of business intrusted to 
his management, while he brought to the exercise of all the functions of 
his office, and faithfully devoted to the service of the University, the 
energies of a powerful, well-ordered mind, richly stored with scientific 
and literary acquirements. 
“ The Members of the Senate further desire to convey to the widow 
and family of Dr. Ball this expression of their opinion of his merits and 
of their regret for his loss, together with their sincere condolence with 
her and them in the severe affliction with which they have been visited; 
and they request the-Yice-Chancellor will transmit to Mrs. Ball a copy 
of this Minute.” 
On the 2nd of April, 1857, the Boyal Dublin Society passed the fol¬ 
lowing resolution:— 
“ Besolved,—That the late lamented death of our esteemed member 
of Council, Robert Ball, LL. D., is an event calling for the marked sym¬ 
pathy of the Society; that the Members take the present opportunity 
of recording their regret at his loss and their respect for his memory, 
as well on account of private worth as of his varied acquirements, and 
the great zeal and assiduity he displayed in the numerous scientific 
occupations in which he was engaged, particularly evidenced by his 
successful superintendence for many years of the Boyal Zoological 
Society.” 
The following resolution was passed at a meeting of the Geological 
Society of Dublin on the 8th of April, 1857, amid the deep regrets 
of the Society for their lost associate, and their warm sympathies for 
his family and friends :— 
“ The Geological Society of Dublin desire to express their sense of 
the great loss they have sustained, in common with many other of the 
scientific societies of Dublin, in the death of Dr. Ball, their former Se¬ 
cretary, Yice-President, and President. They wish at the same time to 
