[5] Only professorships more than 50 years old are listed, as are some other notable historical positions (e.g. Donegall Lecturer in Mathematics (1668), now mostly an honorary, usually one-year, title for a distinguished visiting mathematician).
After the death of John Joly, F.T.C.D., SC.D., F.R.S., professor of geology and mineralogy 1897–1933, a number of his friends subscribed a sum of money to found a series of lectures in his memory.
In 1981, on the occasion of its 250th anniversary, the Royal Dublin Society commemorated the college meeting to which it traces its origins by endowing a biennial lecture on aspects of Irish social and economic policy and history with special reference to the contribution of individuals and institutions.
These lectures were founded in 1988 from funds provided by subscription to commemorate William Bedell Stanford, Regius Professor of Greek 1940–1980, and chancellor of the university 1983–1984.
These lectures were founded in 1964 from funds provided by subscription to commemorate Herbert Martyn Oliver White, Professor of English Literature 1939–60.
The Board appoints the lecturer on the nomination of the Missionary Council of the Church of Ireland which is at all times advised by the committee of the Dublin University Far Eastern Mission.