Contributions to the history of medicine in Ireland. Part I, The history of periodic medical literature in Ireland, including notices of the medical and philosophical societies of Dublin / [W.R. Wilde].

  • Wilde, W. R. (William Robert), 1815-1876
Date:
1846
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    met and formed itself into a society, in the Provost’s lodgings. There, at the first opening of it, as a prelude to what we were to do, I in three or four days’ time, composed An Introductory Discourse to the Doctrine of Sounds, which was sent to the Society in Oxford, and then printed in the Philosophical Transactions^).” Not having facilities for publishing their proceedings in Ireland, it appears that they determined upon offering them to the Royal Society; accordingly, on the 18th of December, 1683, the Provost, Dr. Robert Huntingdon, wrote a letter to Dr. Plot, of the Royal Society, giving an account of “a weekly meeting of several ingenious men about philosophical subjects in Dublin.” This notice, which is recorded in the letter book of the Royal Society (vol. ix. p. 103), informs us that W. Molyneaux,then residing near Ormond’s Gate (now Wormwood Gate),and who was at that period engaged in writing an “Atlas for this Country,” was Secretary:—“And since,” he writes, “you so generously, as well as charitably, offer your assistance, I think this will be the best method of conveyance, to trans¬ mit our notices to the Secretary of the Royal Society, who, after he has perused them, can send them to Oxford” (where a similar society, under the care of Mr. Musgrave, had just been established), “as you likewise by him may send hither. After Christmas that we next meet, our Secretary will pursue that course ; you smoothing our way at London once again, as it seems you have already done.—After awhile we may perchance ease ourselves of that expense, and have our intelligence for nothing(/<). However, you may be sure we shall never grudge to defray all manner of charges that (t) The Diary of Archbishop Marsh, from a transcript in “Marsh’s Li¬ brary,” Dublin, published by the Rev. Dr.Todd in “ The British Magazine” for July and August, 1845. (k) The Royal Society charged only half payment to the Members of the Dublin Society (see Minutes for 4th July, 1G85.)