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" Oxford of a new sympathy for scientific study and research, 

 " which now take their place, honoured and giving honour, 

 " side by side with the older learning." 



Signed, on behalf of the Manchester Literary and 

 Philosophical Society. 



H. B. DIXON, President. 

 F. W. GA\[BLE. 



Hon. Sees. 

 R. L. TAYLOR, 



September 2gth, igoS. 



It was resolved that Dr. F. W. Gamble, F.R.S., one of the 

 Hon. Secretaries, be asked to represent this Society on the 

 occasion of the Darwin Centenary Celebrations at Cambridge, 

 in June, igog. 



The Geological Society of Glasgow celebrated its Jubilee on 

 January 2Sth, igog, and this Society was represented by 

 Mr. D. M. S. Watson, B.Sc. 



GiLLKS Joseph Gustave Dewalque was elected an 

 honorary member of this Society on the 17th of April, 1888. 

 Born at Stavelot, in Belgium, on the 2nd of December, 1826, 

 he became one of his country's most famous geologists, main- 

 taining an active leadership in scientific enquiry almost to the 

 day of his death at the ripe age of seventy-eight, on tlie 3rd of 

 November, igo5. 



His brilliant work was rewarded with many honours. At 

 the University of Liege he received the Doctorates of Medicine 

 and Science, and in 1857 followed his famous predecessor, 

 Dumont, in the chair of Geology there. Eight years later the 

 subjects of Mineralogy and Palaeontology were also committed 

 to his care. His great interest in British Geology led to his 

 election, in 187 1, as a Foreign Correspondent of the Geological 

 Society of London, and in 1880 as a foreign member. He was 



