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President then proceeded to read his Anniversary Address, ia 

 which he discussed the bearings upon theoretical Geology of the 

 results obtained by the Koyal Commision on Water-Supply and 

 the Royal Coal Commission. The Address was prefaced by 

 biographical notices of deceased Fellows, including Sir Roderick 

 I. Murchison, Mr. William Lonsdale, Sir Thomas Acland, Sir 

 John Herschel, Mr. George Grote, Mr. Robert Chambers, and M. 

 Lartet. — The ballot for the Council and Officers was taken, and 

 the following were duly elected for the ensuing year : — President 

 —The Duke of Argyll, K.T., F.R.S. Vice-Presidents— Prof. P. 

 Martin Duncan, F.R.S., Prof. A. C. Ramsay, F.R.S. , Warington 

 W. Smyth, F.R.S., Prof. John Morris. Secretaries — John Evans, 

 F.R.S., David Forbes,. F.R.S. Foreign Secretary, Prof. T. D. 

 Ansted, F.R.S. Treasurer — J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S. Council — 

 Prof. T. D. Ansted, F.R.S., the Duke of Argyll, F.R.S., W. 

 Carruthers, F.R.S., W. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S.,^Prof. P. Martin 

 Duncan, F.R.S., R. Etheridge, F.R.S., John Evans, F.R.S., Jas. 

 Fergusson, F.R.S., J. Wickham Flower, David Forbes, F.R.S., 

 Capt. Douglass Galton, C.B.,F,R.S., Rev. John Gunn, M.A., 

 J. Whitaker Hulke, F.R.S., J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S., Sir Chas. 

 Lyell, Bart, F.R.S., C. J. Meyer, Prof. John Morris, Joseph 

 Prestwic|i, F.R.S., Prof. A. C. Ramsay, F.R.S., R. H. Scott, F. 

 R.S., W. W. Smyth, F.R.S., Prof. J. Tennant, Henry Woodward. 



'' Nature," 29th Feb. 1872. 



Additional Note on Obolellina, &c. — Since the sheet 

 ♦containing my remarks on this genus was printed I have received 

 a letter in which it is stated that Prof. Hall says his paper '' was 

 in reality printed in March, 1871, and that he received from 

 twenty-five to thirty copies, from the printer, at that time." — 

 <' That he distributed these copies to some learned societies and 

 individuals, having reserved three copies only, and that he sent 

 one to the Geological Society of London, and to other parties 

 whose names he can produce." I do not admit the whole of this 

 statement. I have made extensive enquiries, among the most 

 active and best geologists and naturalists in the United Ststes — • 

 men who keep themselves fully informed, as to all books and 

 papers on geology and palaeontology published in the country. 

 With a single exception not one of them ever saw, or even heard 

 of the paper until I wrote to them about it. One gentleman, 

 only, sent me a copy on the 12th Feb., 1872, but he did not 



